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I’m not certain if the email this morning was new or if it was the one I didn’t delete yesterday, but either way I’ve found myself back in the book of Job, and for whatever reason Job 19:1-5 has caused a pause. My eyes looked up from the Scripture as I tried to apply it in today’s world so I may somehow benefit from it’s message.

Then Job responded, ….. How long will you torment me ….. And crush me with words? ….. These ten times you have insulted me; ….. You are not ashamed to wrong me. ….. Even if I truly erred, ….. My error lodges with me. ….. If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me ….. And prove my disgrace to me, …..Know then that God has wronged me ….. And has closed His net around me.

I clicked on the little cross at the beginning of the chapter and chose to view all the footnotes. It was there I found my WOD and considered times I might have seen it in my responses. I know in the future I need to be more alert to Satan’s prodding and remember the value of the armor I’ve donned.

19:1-5 He began with the anguished cry that his friends have become “recalcitrant” (having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline) and relentless for mentors, and they have had no effect on dealing with the sin they imagine is present.

Much of what is written in the OT became null and void with the blood of Jesus on the cross. Yet much of what was written in the NT refers back to the OT, indicating it still holds values that should be applied today. It is my observation that “recalcitrance” is alive and well and working it’s way through the world today like yeast works through the bread dough.