Lay Down My Pride: Knowing Our Place (Job 31:35-40)
“Lay down my pride, my desires, my demise. I'm ready now to see it Your way.” – Jeremy Camp 🧐 Dear response requester, We all want answers. I hope we ask for them through prayers. However, let’s not be demanding. Let’s accept that only God can be all-knowing. Read how Job longed for an explanation of his calamity, how he desired a reply from the Almighty. Job 31:35-40 (NASB) 35 Oh that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature; Let the Almighty answer me! And the indictment which my adversary has written, 36 I would certainly carry it on my shoulder, I would tie it to myself like a garland. 37 I would declare to Him the number of my steps; Like a prince, I would approach Him. 38 “If my land cries out against me, And its furrows weep together; 39 If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or have caused its owners to lose their lives, 40 May the thorn-bush grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended...