the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Job 33:1-22
On two previous occasions Job had demanded the intervention of an arbiter (or mediator: Job 9:33; Job 16:21) – a wish which is granted. Elihu is to be the interpreter of God’s thoughts towards him. Job had understood that this role could only be fulfilled by a man like himself (Job 9:32). "Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead", replies Elihu (v. 6). Scripture teaches us that there is "one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy 2:5). This is the deep mystery of the Lord’s humanity: if He had not become a man, He would not have been able to be the spokesman for man before God.
"God speaketh once, yea twice" (v. 14). After He had spoken through the prophets, God spoke in the Son. What attention the world should have paid to this message (Hebrews 1:1-2; Hebrews 2:1)! Yet v. 14 of this chapter goes on thus, "Yet man perceiveth it not". How great is the indifference and hardness of the human heart! This is why the epistle to the Hebrews solemnly warns, "See that ye refuse not him . . . that speaketh from heaven" (Hebrews 12:25). In one brief sentence Elihu silences all these arguments – "God is greater than man" (v. 12). And He does not have to give account of Himself to men (v. 13).
