Coffee With Job. Episode 102
Channel: Jason Blaiklock
Date: 2022-08-09

God Speaks in Sickness. Job 33:19-33 

Through sickness v.19-22 – Yes God does speak through sickness. “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world”  C S Lewis.  Hebrews ch. 12 v.4-7   .  Discipline from God. 
The purpose of all this is to save us v.29-30 – v.24-33 is a great sermon about being restored from backsliding. 
and to warn a person against sin. .  The person is healed and restored – Psalm 22 v.22-25. Simone Weil “The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it”.    Suffering can be remedial – the ancient saying (Buddhist?) about whether we are an egg or a potato in boiling water.  The egg goes hard – the potato goes soft. 
He is right but the arrogance returns v.31-33  
Is Elihu right?  Is he speaking the words of God? Preparing the way for God?  Or is he from the devil?  Perhaps he speaks better than he knew.    
God sends a mediator v. 23-28  - Right now God is silent.  He is not answering Jobs questions.  God is not at Jobs beck and call.   Job says that no-one understands me.  Eliphaz has told him in ch.5 v.1 “Call if you will, but who will answer you?  To which of the holy ones will you turn?”.  but these verses tell us there is an angel more than that there is a mediator.  Remember Jobs longings for such. Ch.9 v.33 “If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both”.   He is also of the family of Ram which suggest that one of his descendants would be King David and ultimately Jesus Christ.   
 In all your troubles this is the one you need to turn to.  In all your anger it is him you need to speak to.  And in all your counseling and trying to help please remember to point people to Jesus.