Bildad Speaks: God
punishes the wicked
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| Arapahoe Basin | Colorado |
Why don't you stop
searching out for the words you know are true and say what you truly feel.
Consider your words before you spew out such blasphemy. Why do you consider us
meaningless and without wisdom? Who are you to look down on us? Look at
yourself, you have torn yourself apart in anger, yet you plea with God that you
are righteous. Fool, God does not bend His will to your feelings. Clearly, God
is judging you for your sins, He has put out the false light that you have hung
above your head, God does not allow the wicked to portray themselves as
righteous. This man attempts to walk strongly but God minimizes his strides, he
has schemes that God foils. He destroys himself through his own pride and
allows himself to be trapped by the world around him. His paths are wicked and
they are riddled with traps that will be set upon his flesh. He is brought
before the Holy One and is consumed by his own sin, he falsely believes in his
own righteousness and throws himself before God as an unholy being who will be
consumed in the lake of fire. He is removed from all light and the presence of
God and is condemned to eternal damnation. These are the ramifications of false
righteousness before our God, clearly, you do not know Him as I know Him.
Job Replies: My
Redeemer Lives
Why must you
continue to tear me down and break me apart with your fruitless babble? Ten
times you have done this, do you not feel ashamed for your actions? What level
of pride do you have within you? Even if what you say is true, that I have
erred against God almighty, then it is between myself and God. He is the judge
and jury, there is no other. Why do you zoom in on my sins and continue to
break me down in disgrace as you argue against me? Know this, God has put this
on me and placed barriers around me so that I can not commune with Him. It is
His doing. Listen! I have cried out: Violence! But I hear no response, I call
for help but there is no justice from the Judge. He has placed me in a basilica
and placed a moat around it with no bridge, thus I cannot escape. He has
blotted out the light within me so there is only darkness within my prison. He
has taken me from His presence and ripped the crown from my head. God has
ripped me from the roots and taken everything away from me, I have no identity
anymore. He has put those who are close to me further than an arm's length,
those who knew me for who I truly am are estranged from me. My family has
failed me, my best friends condemn me and are long gone, no one knows who I am
anymore nor do they care. Even my own wife does not recognize my own breath
when I speak, she speaks evil against me and screams for me to curse God and
die a fool. Have mercy on me, friends! God has touched me with His hand and
given me what has befallen. Why are you mimicking God and pursuing me? Are you
not satisfied with my flesh being broken? Do you seek my soul to be burned in
the fires of hell as well? Someone allow me to write these words for all to see
and speak of these days! They need to be in a book and remembered forever! I
know that my Redeemer is alive and that He will return to the earth. He
will come long after my body has been
destroyed and returned to the dirt, yet I will see God and my eyes will behold
his Glory one day. Oh, that day should come now! My heart yearns to be reunited
with my creator and Lord. Judgment is coming, wrath brings the sword, the root
of all things is found in God - you all must prepare your hearts for the coming
of the King and pursue Him.
Dear Lord, I am stuck within a vicious cycle of falling away from you and then pleading to find your presence. I have in my life many things I pursue that are not You. I know the truth and I understand it within my heart, mind, and soul. But, my knowledge does not lead me towards you. Purify within me a clear mind and a pure heart that can feed my soul the eternal things and steer away from the worldly. Amen.
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