Job 9:32-35

Job 9:32-35 32 "He is not a man like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court. 33 If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both, 34 someone to remove God's rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more. 35 Then I would speak up without fear of him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.

Often I have approached Christ (God) as a friend. I find its natural to talk to God in that manner, and like many other Christians I have been brought up to see God as my friend. The natural extension of this for me and for the majority of Christians is to see God in someway as human. This passage in Job reminds us Christians of a couple of things, one that God is not human. Job is lamenting the fact that there is no way that he can identify. He is not only lamenting that fact his is also longing for a relationship with God. There is another part here that we Christians see, and that is that there is an arbitrator between us and God, Christ. We can rejoice in this knowledge that God has provided a way that we can relate with one another. Yet we need to be mindful that while God loves and cares for us, and that God has continually sought reconciliation with humanity, he is in fact not human. This is a comfort to me, that means Gods ways aren’t my ways and the more I want to hold him to my standards, my words for justice, fairness, righteousness, forgiveness, and grace his ways his decisions are beyond all of humanities, including my owns comprehension. Does that comfort you?