Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?
Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor? But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light darkness came. My heart is in turmoil, and is never still; days of affliction come to meet me. I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches. My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat. My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
Job chapter 30: 24-31 R.S.V Second Edition
Today we read here the words from Job in the Hebrew Scriptures and we hear and see through them that Job is in spiritual torment of the likes few of us ever see or know. He is a man who has lost much and he has been calling out to God over and over and saying he doesn’t understand why this has happened to him. To lose his children all in one day and to lose his wealth at the same time and within days afterward he loses his health and his wife yells at him to just curse God role over and die. Job has hit a limit very few of us could ever reach, that he stands in the assembly of his three friends and he gives a verbal account of how he saw himself as a righteous man and yet his friends point out that he must not have been so righteous because calamity has come upon him and no one can figure out why else God would allow this to happen.
My friends we are in a time of America where we stand on a precipice and we are looking down into the gorge and we too are asking how could God have brought us to this point? Our Republic and our whole way of life stand in the center of our whole day now. Morning, noon and night our minds are taken up with news reports, blogs from who we consider trusted sources and we discuss things with our trusted friends only, because we dare not strike up conversation with passing individuals because now we suspect them to be of the side of the enemy. The side of indifference and at the worst the side of chaos who would rather see America and our republic go down in flames and be abolished and label our 240 years of existence as a failed experiment. But how can we? Have we not become a nation of laws and of higher standards? Have we not led the charge for racial equality and against segregation? Yes changes did take place in Europe between races and religions but all of them are still subject to the crown! Our Constitution begins with the words, “We The People,” and we chose to govern ourselves, if we give up on our way of life are we not declaring that we the people are not able to govern ourselves? That it takes people who are smarter, more cultured, richer and wealthier than we are to govern over us? Are we declaring that we as a free thinking society are not intelligent enough or with enough integrity to seek and establish laws that are fair enough to equitably govern over our own society? Are we declaring that we just aren’t evolved enough to self govern and that we need to turn back to the masters of old Europe to lead us and to provide for us? Are we not in essence returning to the proverbial plantation of our ancestors and returning to the crop fields and acquiescing to work for the master in the big house because obviously they are the wise ones, look they were born into the wealth and position therefore they must be given to rule out of providence?
Read through the words of Job again and hear his pleading with God about his situation and know that we all seek understanding from God and my friends that is exactly what we are to do, seek God! Cry out to God and raise your fist if your desperation urges you to and say like Job, What is going On! Are we not born from a righteous God and are we not spoken to as brothers and sisters by Jesus Himself? Then we can declare that we are deserved of God’s assistance and intervention. Pray, call out to God and pound on the doors of heaven for your freedom and for freedom for the world because beloved the alternative is enslavement forever and we will have put the chains back on our own wrists.
