Today's readings are Job 10.1-22 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Job+10.1-22 ) and John 5.1-18 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=John+5.1-18 ).
There's a time for everything, right? Including a time to forget to write up a daily blog post that you usually write up in the morning?
Job's time in today's readings is the time for singing the blues. I can picture him sitting on the porch of the shack by the swamp, his friends with him, all of them holding their guitars or banjos, and Job launching into song.
No doubt the man Jesus encounters in John 5 has had his times of singing the blues. He has been lying around a pool, known as a place of healing, but he has been there for years. Is anyone going to help him? Maybe today? But always someone else receives the favor of God and the healing the lame man wanted.
When we are at our low points, when it's our time to sing the blues, Jesus enters into the scene. Christ, the sin-bearer. Christ, the perfect Son of Man and Son of God. Christ, the one who knew no sin, come to earth because this is the way God loved the world.
So when you tune up your banjo, smoke the crawdads (do you put those in a pipe or roll them in papers?), and uncork that bottle of cheap red wine with your buddies on the porch, ready to sing the blues, remember the real nourishment we receive - the body and blood of Christ given and shed for us. This is God's cure for those who are singing the blues.
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