Bible Discussion Thread

The book of Job is so beautiful and there is so much more application of the wisdom within it today than most will realize. Utter humility before God, truly unknowable and beyond our understanding, except that which He revealed in Christ and reveals to us by His Spirit. And even then, how can we figure it out?! We foolishly muse our dreams, expecting that we might understand them for prophecy, or reproof, or instruction, or some help. We understand them, it seems, but really how many different interpretations are there? For God can take any thing and make good an interpretation that is right regardless of any man's situation. I do know that He has given me great wisdom; and yet also that I am completely unwise. I am mud. I am dirt made into the fashion of a living thing. I have only His Spirit as my breath; my thoughts do not exist without His breath; and yet somehow my thoughts are not always clean. The dirt of my being tries to choke His perfection in me. It is not that He cannot overcome it, no, not at all. It is that He allows it to happen that my spirit may know that the dirt within which I reside is merely that; and that no great thing is because of this vessel or its strength - but that all that is good is of God and all work can only be attributed to Him by reason of His Spirit within us (and also the workings over which we have no control, by reason of His Spirit without us). There is a wealth of wisdom in the Holy Bible. I would never say that one should read only parts of it and not all of it (which, to this day, it would seem that people still disagree as to what 'all of the Holy Bible' means). But if anyone ever asks me what book of the Bible should they read, I think it is wise that, given that one already has knowledge about Jesus Christ, one should read the book of Job to learn more concerning the workings of God: to learn concerning our own pride and foolishness, to understand the hearts of men, to learn about God's creation, and in times of distress we learn, not only chastisement, as we should - but also that we learn justification through God and not of ourselves - but also knowing that we are not justified except that God Himself justifies us; and even then we accept that justification with humility and not with a high-mind or with any boasting. We will be like Job, putting our hands over our mouths, while God says to us, "Which of you will tell me? Which of you will direct me?"