A Neighbor Like Job

God said of Job that he “was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil” (Job 1:1). What a wonderful epitaph. To be “perfect and upright” is to be complete. One becomes this way, and only becomes this way, as he listens to and follows God’s Word. To fear God is to hold Him in deepest reverence and highest respect. One who lightly uses the phrase “Oh my God” is not one who has such reverence for Him. Job also “eschewed” evil. He hated it. He had contempt for evil. He avoided evil. If God said it was a sin, Job hated it as sin. It would not have mattered to him how many of his friends or relatives may have practiced; it was still sin. Wouldn’t you like to live in a community where everyone would be like Job? Heaven will be that way.

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