WTW 2021
30 November
Job 30
You Just Stare at Me
In his great power God becomes like a straight jacket to me; he binds me like the neck of my garment. He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes. “I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.
Job 30:18 – 20
Never before studied, never before noticed, Job 30 stands out even beyond the weeping Lamentations of Jeremiah, the cry of Jonah from the depths of the abyss, and (almost sacreligiously so) approaching the loud cries of messiah, crushed and echoing across the ages..
Eloi Eloi lama sabachtani…
Job 30 is, in its depth of the horror of abandonment by God, the exact counterpart of the depths of the saving love and favor of God known in that deep song of Erin.
O the deep, deep love of Jesus
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free,
rolling as a mighty ocean
in its fullness over me.
Underneath me, all around me,
is the current of Thy love;
leading onward, leading homeward,
to Thy glorious rest above.
*reminiscent of Invictus Redeemed
Wisdom in the WORD 