Coffee With Job. Episode 91
Channel: Jason Blaiklock
Date: 2022-08-04

The Churning Inside A Tribute to Clive Bailey. Job 30:24-31
 

Deserted by God. v.24-26 – Closeness with God replaced by aloneness. Deserted by God – Cowper
“ Where is the blessedness I knew
When first I saw the Lord?……
What peaceful hours I once enjoyed!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void
The world can never fill.

v.20 – God hears but he does not answer. 
Innocent:  This is not just pathetic – in the end, he again asserts his innocence. 
Contentment is replaced by The Churning inside  - v. 27.   v.14 – he feels like a besieged city but the most dramatic description is his feeling that he is all churned up inside.   It is not the street gangs, it is what God has done.  How much pain can a human take?  Humiliating, merciless, violent, and deadly.  “
“Pain as a sensation is closely associated with anxiety, worry, fear, depression, and other types of emotion.  When a patient becomes fearful or anxious he tends to report that his pain is more intense; conversely, when he becomes relaxed and not anxious about the pain-producing stimulation he tends to report his pain as less intense.  The total experience of pain involves a complex blending of unpleasant sensations with emotions”.  
Is he near the point of madness?  What is happening to me?    He is acutely miserable socially, spiritually, emotionally, and physically.  
It is little wonder that he cries out.  V.31 – The music of his former life has been turned into mourning.   The harp and the flute were instruments for joy but now they are only playing dirges.  
Conclusion: So how do we cope when this happens to us? 
Keep right on to the end of the road. This is a deep insight into the psychology of grief – perhaps Job is too assertive.  Perhaps there is too much self-pity.  But he does have integrity. This is not just pathetic – in the end, he again asserts his innocence.   Job chooses not to give up – to suffer, live and trudge on to the end.   He is not denying his faith.  Nor denying God. He cries to God.  It is YOU.   Rom 5 v.3 “Tribulations produce perseverance”.  Job is learning.  His whole life is being sharpened and deepened.  Shallowness is one of the greatest curses of modern life. 
Count your blessings - We do not value them until we lose them. Calvin – “For there is nothing easier with a man than to make himself believe, that he shall always continue in a happy state when he is once in it.”.  We are strangers in his world.  We are passing through. Calvin “Let us call upon God and wait at his hand for whatsoever it shall please him to send us”.  The rich farmer.  
Look to Christ when you are in trouble - Where is there any hope when you are in such a position?  It does not come from remembering the past.   It comes from finding Christ. At the bottom of every pit stands Christ. With us.   Hebrews ch.2 v.10 “In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.”  Ch.5 v.8 “Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered”.  

The mockery,  physical suffering, the social rejection, deserted by God, the innocence,  the churning inside.   And also the loss of family and friends. 
“How deep the father's love for us,
how vast beyond all measure, 
that he should give his only Son
to make a wretch his treasure.
How great the pain of searing loss,
The Father turns his face away,
As wounds that mar the Chosen One
Bring many sons to glory. “