As a reminder, we have our church chili supper and Halloween party tomorrow evening. We'll start serving chili at 4:30 so you can get home for tricker treaters, but you can also stick around and enjoy costumes and fun. The chili supper is $5 for adults and $3 for children under 12. If cost is a concern, please feel free to talk to me about tickets and I can help with that. These are great events to bring friends and neighbors!
Our reading for today wraps up the story of Job. We see Job recognizing how small he is compared to God. Even more important, we see God telling Job's friends that Job is right, not them. It turns out our questions and our doubts are welcome; God wants our real, honest selves, not a dressed up, fake cheerful picture.
God bless,
Sam
Job
42:1-9
Then Job
answered the Lord: 2“I know that you can do
all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. 3‘Who is
this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did
not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. 4‘Hear,
and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.’ 5I
had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; 6therefore
I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
7After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord
said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath is kindled against you and against your
two friends; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job
has. 8Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my
servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job
shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according
to your folly; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job
has done.” 9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and
Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told
them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.