The Righteous Finger Pointer
By Rich Rockwood
Is there anyone more self-assured than the one who knows what others have done wrong? I call this person “the righteous finger-pointer.” He or she knows exactly what is wrong with us and what we need to do to get right with the Lord. The finger pointer cannot wait to share it with you like Zophar did to Job, whose children were missing and dead, his property destroyed or stolen, and whose skin was raw from scratching. What timing!
Zophar had the gall to say Job had not even been punished enough for his wrongs! Even if Zophar were correct, such statements are unlikely to be very helpful. In Eugene Peterson’s The Message, 1 Corinthians 13:2 says: “If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, `Jump,’ and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.” If Zophar’s hope for Job was a renewed relationship with God, there were better ways of doing that. A song by Joe South back in 1969 had this refrain: “Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes. And before you abuse, criticize and accuse, walk a mile in my shoes.”
How soon Job’s friends resorted to preaching when they should have just listened. Don’t make the same mistake.
Job 11:1-20
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