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This is a rather deep passage for me. It feels so hard to explain but yet it makes total sense. The image this enter chapter paints for me is about Job dealing with, seeing for the first time and recognizing for what it is...his flesh. From verse 1 all the way through to 26 I feel I have been allowed to witness, too, my flesh or should I say the desires of my flesh and what it leads to. The reveal causes me to think about how important it is to humble myself daily and permit the teaching, guiding, and cultivating of my mind by the Holy Spirit to free me from my flesh. I struggle a bit with reading this chapter because of how much I feel I can relate to it. It feels too real...to in my face. But ironically I am so thankful for it and the fact that God has matured me to this point to see Him and His love here. I see Jesus in the wilderness in this chapter... a fasting, a stripping away of the flesh for the grand purpose of living in heaven on Earth (or as Matthew 6 commands) letting God's will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. Father, thank you for allowing me to see my flesh for what it truly is. In it, there is no peace, no quietness, no rest, but only turmoil. Father this is not your will for me. Thank you Father for giving me Your Spirit, empowering me to enter your rest daily, even now. I confess with my mouth that I know this is only possible through Christ, who spilled His blood so I can be reborn in Your bloodline, in Your Spirit. Thank You Father for loving me so much that You gave me Christ Jesus. In His name I pray and ask it all. Amen.

Job's response to his physical affliction was completely different than his first response after losing everything. I can't even imagine the pain and grief he must have been enduring. He felt totally abandoned by God and he wished he had never been born. It's kind of one of those "It's a Wonderful Life" moments where an angel could appear and show him what life would have been like for all those whom he helped during his lifetime. God does care and He promises never to leave us or forsake us. There have been times in my life where I have felt sorry for my self and even thought like Job but in the end I like Job have to trust God when we don't understand. For God is good all the time and He will make all things work out for His glory!

I can surely understand Job's anguish at the way his life has turned out but yet you do not hear him curse God as Satan said he would. He seems in anguish regarding his circumstance but does not take it out on God.