Job 25

Bildad speaks once again in this chapter, but this time he keeps things surprisingly brief.

It seems that he has in mind the first part of what Job says in chapter 23… the bit about arguing his case before the Lord.

Interestingly, what Bildad says here is completely true. It is an accurate description of God’s holiness, and just how far short we fall. However, I don’t think that Job was claiming sinlessness… instead; he was claiming that he hadn’t been committing any SECRET SINS, or living a HABITUALLY WICKED lifestyle. As far as Job could see, he could come up with no reason why he would be singled out for such awful suffering.

Having said this, I think there re a couple of things we can all benefit from in what Bildad has to say here. I think Bildad has 2 main thoughts:

1. We need to think HIGHLY of the Lord. It is so easy for us to forget just how holy, how “otherly” God is. As Hector has been pointing out lately, He is the only SELF-EXISTENT ONE. Ravi Zacharias, one of my favorite bible teachers often points out that our entire existence is DEPENDENT upon one thing or another. Oxygen, Water, Food… we have needs and if we don’t fulfill them we will die. Ultimately we must look to God to sustain us. We only live because He has given us life. God on the other hand is dependent upon nothing. His existence is eternal and unfaltering. We forget this sometimes. I think sometimes our lives communicate that we really believe that God was created for our pleasure… quite opposite of the truth. We could all use to step back and remember the greatness of our God.
2. Bildad also brings up the reality of who we are in light of God’s greatness, and how LITTLE we should really think of ourselves. He says that we are worms… Creatures that crawl through the dirt, creatures of very low esteem.

Bildad concludes that as worms we should realize that we CANNOT stand in the presence of God.

What Bildad didn’t know was that God was going to bridge the gap between His holiness and our sinfulness… God Himself would become a man… He would be a worm, like you and I.