Job 16:19-21

Job 16:19-21 19 Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high. 20 My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God; 21 on behalf of a man he pleads with God as a man pleads for his friend.

Its hard for a Christian to read this passage and not think of Christ. Christ the person who is advocating for us, who is offering intercessions to God on our behalf. We have the benefit of Christ which Job didn’t have. This makes me think about our friends and relatives who are not Christian. I often find it hard to talk and share with them the comfort of Christ when going through a difficult time. One clear rule of that is knowing when to share, but also trying to get them to identify with someone else (Christ) when it would help them. One of the reasons I think this is difficult for so many of us is that we don’t identify with Christ. Christ can intercede to God on our behalf, but we live as if there is no way that Christ can understand what we are saying or what we are doing. Christ, God, has no relevant part in any of our lives. While Job has reason to feel this way, we often don’t. We aren’t going through a trauma, we aren’t facing death. We are just plodding away at our day’s not thinking of much and doing even less. Can we let God in, can we allow him that time in our life now so that when we are in a situation like Job we will be able to cope?