Moth-Eaten
Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff? For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet. Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 13:25-28
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Moth-Eaten
Job just wants to know why? What great sin has he committed to deserve such treatment from God? He does not deny that he is in fact a sinner, yet he can’t agree with his friends that his sins warrant such torment and sorrow. He feels as though God has enslaved him and is allowing him to rot away and be destroyed like a moth-eaten cloak. Job is frustrated. This of course is the state of our world, one in which sin, death, and the devil seem to have free reign to ply their evil wares. We live in a shattered world since the fall and it is no surprise that the shards slice and wound us constantly. After all, “The whole creation has been groaning together” (Rm 8:22). Job wants salvation, as do we. The problem is that this salvation cannot come from ourselves. It is not to be obtained through our piety or good works. Salvation is nothing we can do. Thankfully though it is something which does come to us. Not on account of our merits, but on account of the merit of Christ. His death on the cross for us brought salvation to a shattered world. His resurrection mends our wounds as the devil and death are defeated. Our moth-eaten garments are replaced by white robes washed clean in the blood of the Lamb.
Job 13:25-28
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Moth-Eaten
Job just wants to know why? What great sin has he committed to deserve such treatment from God? He does not deny that he is in fact a sinner, yet he can’t agree with his friends that his sins warrant such torment and sorrow. He feels as though God has enslaved him and is allowing him to rot away and be destroyed like a moth-eaten cloak. Job is frustrated. This of course is the state of our world, one in which sin, death, and the devil seem to have free reign to ply their evil wares. We live in a shattered world since the fall and it is no surprise that the shards slice and wound us constantly. After all, “The whole creation has been groaning together” (Rm 8:22). Job wants salvation, as do we. The problem is that this salvation cannot come from ourselves. It is not to be obtained through our piety or good works. Salvation is nothing we can do. Thankfully though it is something which does come to us. Not on account of our merits, but on account of the merit of Christ. His death on the cross for us brought salvation to a shattered world. His resurrection mends our wounds as the devil and death are defeated. Our moth-eaten garments are replaced by white robes washed clean in the blood of the Lamb.
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