THE VERSE
He sings before men and says: “I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me. He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.”~Job 33:27-28
THE THOUGHT
This wonderful Old Testament picture of the gospel comes from the book of Job, when Elihu—the man who begins to set Job and his three friends straight—pictures the reaction of a person saved by grace. This person—who could be Job or his friends or any one of us—needs a mediator from God to grant him mercy, redemption, righteousness, and acceptance before God. Elihu was looking forward to such a mediator, and we have this mediator in Jesus Christ. “There is one mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ,” Paul writes. So what we see here in Job 33 is a reality for all of us who have trusted in Jesus as our Savior.Oh, the blessing of free forgiveness! I have sinned and perverted what was right, and yet it was not repaid to me! I, with an incalculable debt of treason against God, have been redeemed, and the whole record of debt that stood against me has been set aside and nailed to the cross. Oh, let me sing before men of this great salvation all of my days! I will shout for joy at the work of Your hands, pierced for me, that accomplished my deliverance. My sin has not been repaid to me, because Jesus has paid my debt in full. Oh, how great His love is for me!
THE PRAYER
Thank you, Father, for Your great love for me! You have given me Your Son as my mediator, representing me before Your throne, pleading on my behalf. He is my righteousness and my redemption, my joy and my light, my Savior and my King, my Advocate and Intercessor, my Lover and Friend. Oh, grant me to know the height and length and width and breadth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge!EXTENDED READING
Job 33:22-281 Corinthians 1:30-31
Colossians 2:13-14
1 Timothy 1:5-6
THE QUOTE
“Come for repentance, if you cannot come repenting. Come for a broken heart, if you cannot come with a broken heart. Come to be melted, if you are not melted. Come to be wounded, if you are not wounded.” ~Charles SpurgeonTHROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR
Nehemiah 12Proverbs 14:1-18
Luke 18:31-43
Titus 1:1-9
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