JOB’S FRIENDS

I was wondering about this recently:

If Job’s counselors were arguably more spiritually mature than the majority of Christians today, what does that mean about the advice we regularly receive?

 

 

 

3 thoughts on “JOB’S FRIENDS

  1. Jeannie Love

    That certainly is a situation to ponder. At this point in my life (in my mid 60s) there are a select few I turn to for advice. I am presently having the experience of standing by and praying for a long-time friend in a distant city who has been unemployed for over a year. Each week we talk, and for several of those weeks, earlier on in her unemployment, I shared Scriptural helps–ideas based on Scripture to help her through depressing times. She always ‘had an answer’ not to incorporate what I suggested. Then one week she shared with me something that she had read by a well-known author that had helped her. Lo and behold! It was just what I had been saying to her (but I bit my tongue rather than pointing that out). I guess reading it in print was better than speaking it over the phone???? God uses many things to teach us how to handle life in a godly manner 🙂

    More to your point, perhaps today more people are drawn to empathy rather than Scriptural truths; we need to learn Scripture and practice the following: What I KNOW, trumps what I FEEL; and advisors need to tell us what we NEED to hear rather than what we WANT to hear.

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  2. Dave Post author

    The way to gain wisdom is to have people who both fear God and truly love us. The kind the Proverbs talk about!

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