What Do You Know?
Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
Job 15:8-9
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What Do You Know?
“What do you know?” This is often used as a reply to someone when we don’t like their answer. We dismiss them as not knowing anything. In a sarcastic way Eliphaz askes the same of Job. “What do you now that we do not know?” Previously Job had asserted that he was on the same level with his friends as far as their intelligence was concerned. Now Eliphaz wants to know if this is true than why doesn’t Job see things the way he does and admit that all his suffering is on account of a certain grievous sin which Job refuses to admit to. This is an old trick the devil likes to play on us. He appeals to our pride and a desire to always be right, so that when there are disagreements, we refuse to hear the other side, after all, “What do they know?” So we have to ask ourselves, “What do we know?” And the truth is that God has in fact revealed a great many things to us. We are not to lean on our own understanding (Proverbs 3:5-6) but when one “lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him” (James 1:5). How many troubles could have been avoided if only we had turned to God instead of turning inwards towards ourselves. Because the truth which He has revealed to us is that we are all sinners in need of a Savior, and this Savior, Jesus Christ, has come and accomplished what we could never do, no matter how much we think we know. For Christ knew what has to be done and He did it. Taking our sins, He willingly went to the cross to die with them. Suffering for you and me, so that we might be reconciled to the Father and have life eternal. This is what Scripture tells us, this is what we know.
Job 15:8-9
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What Do You Know?
“What do you know?” This is often used as a reply to someone when we don’t like their answer. We dismiss them as not knowing anything. In a sarcastic way Eliphaz askes the same of Job. “What do you now that we do not know?” Previously Job had asserted that he was on the same level with his friends as far as their intelligence was concerned. Now Eliphaz wants to know if this is true than why doesn’t Job see things the way he does and admit that all his suffering is on account of a certain grievous sin which Job refuses to admit to. This is an old trick the devil likes to play on us. He appeals to our pride and a desire to always be right, so that when there are disagreements, we refuse to hear the other side, after all, “What do they know?” So we have to ask ourselves, “What do we know?” And the truth is that God has in fact revealed a great many things to us. We are not to lean on our own understanding (Proverbs 3:5-6) but when one “lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him” (James 1:5). How many troubles could have been avoided if only we had turned to God instead of turning inwards towards ourselves. Because the truth which He has revealed to us is that we are all sinners in need of a Savior, and this Savior, Jesus Christ, has come and accomplished what we could never do, no matter how much we think we know. For Christ knew what has to be done and He did it. Taking our sins, He willingly went to the cross to die with them. Suffering for you and me, so that we might be reconciled to the Father and have life eternal. This is what Scripture tells us, this is what we know.
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