A STUDY FROM THE BOOK OF JOB JOB 13:25-26 13:25-26 - “Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.” He humbly pleads with God his own utter inability to stand before him: “Wilt thou break a leaf, pursue the dry stubble? Lord, is it for thy honor to trample upon one that is down already, or to crush one that neither has nor pretends to any power to resist thee?” We ought to have such an apprehension of the goodness and compassion of God as to believe that he will not break the bruised reed - Matt. 12:20. 13:26 - “For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.” He sadly complains of Gods severe dealings with him. He owns it was for his sins that God thus contended with him, but thinks it hard that his former sins, long since committed, should now be remembered against him, and he should he reckoned with for the old scores: Thou writest bitter things against me. Afflictions are bitter things. Writing them denotes deliberation and determination, written as a warrant for execution; it denotes also the continuance of his affliction, for that which is written remains, and, “Herein thou makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth,” that is, “thou punishest me for them, and thereby puttest me in mind of them, and obligest me to renew my repentance for them.” God sometimes writes very bitter things against the best and dearest of his saints and servants, both in outward afflictions and inward disquiet; trouble in body and trouble in mind, that he may humble them, and prove them, and do them good in their latter end. The sins of youth are often the smart of age both in respect of sorrow within - Jer. 31:18,19, and suffering without - 20:11. Time does not wear out the guilt of sin. When God writes bitter things against us his design therein is to make us possess our iniquities, to bring forgotten sins to mind, and so to bring us to remorse for them as to break us off from them. This is all the fruit, to take away our sin.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:14:40 +0000
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