Today's readings are Job 15.1-23 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Job+15.1-23 ), Job 15.30-35 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Job+15.30-35 ), and John 6.60-71.
Once again, Job's counselor is right. Eliphaz is absolutely right that all creation is fallen and subject to the curse. Of course, he is also wrong. When our Lord looks at his creation he sees it through the redemptive work of Christ. It is therefore, once again, proclaimed "very good" just as it was at the close of creation.
Whom will we trust? Will we trust ourselves, showing the fruit of sin, the darkened wisdom of a fallen mind, the frail and dying body of one under the curse? No, rather, we will trust in Jesus Christ, the redeemer of the world, who has the words of life. We look to him. God the Father looks at us through Christ's redemptive work. All that the Lord looks at is therefore clean and pure.
Lord, grant us to believe on you, to look to you, the redeemer of the world, the Lord our righteousness.
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