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Day 138, or May 18. We need help to deal with the Holy God. Our thoughts today are from

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Job chapter 9 verse 33. If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to

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bring us together. And now the big picture surrounding this verse. Job won't let up

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as he pushes harder and harder to gain justice as his world falls apart around him. Another

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of his friends, Bildad the Shuhite, joins in, and so Job hears a different voice

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but is no more persuaded than he was when Eliphaz was speaking. Job risks losing his

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friends as he seeks justice from God, and it says a lot for them that they don't walk

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away but remain steadfast with their friend, Job, even if it's only in order to put him

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right. All the religious people around Job would be used to having a priest to stand

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between them and their God. The idea is as old as time itself. You can't approach God

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without someone being present to argue your case for you. In an almost throwaway remark,

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Job blurts out if only there was someone to mediate between me and God. He knew that it

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would take a very special person, but he didn't know anyone like that.

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And now today's action step. Bearing in mind that Job predates Jesus by two thousand

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years, it was an amazing prophetic statement when he said that he was lost without a mediator.

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The world is full of people today who believe if they live respectable lives and do more

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good things than bad, then they will be okay when they stand before God. Therefore they

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don't need a go-between. It's hard to grasp, without the help of the Holy Spirit, that

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no matter how good we are, we still need a mediator to plead our case before the living

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God, whose standard is perfection. This may appear to be a hopeless situation, but it

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isn't. Far from it. It is filled with hope from our mediator, Jesus Christ. Maybe this

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is the time for you to trust Christ's sacrifice on the cross is the one that will put you

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right before God. Please take this opportunity to listen to Day 21 again.