Homilist Job 23:1-6 Then Job answered and said,… The provision to satisfy this longing of the soul must involve — I. A PERSONAL MANIFESTATION OF GOD TO THE SOUL. It is not for some thing, but for some person that the soul cries. Pantheism may gratify the instinct of the speculative, or the sentiment of the poetic, but it meets not this profoundest craving of our nature. II. A BENEVOLENT MANIFESTATION OF GOD TO THE SOUL. For an unemotional God the soul has no affinity; for a malevolent one it has a dread. It craves for one that is kind and loving. Its cry is for the Father; nothing else will do. III. A PROPITIABLE MANIFESTATION OF GOD TO THE SOUL. A sense of sin presses heavily on the race. So mere benevolence will not do. God may be benevolent and yet not propitiable. Does then our Bible meet the greatest necessity of human nature? Does it give a personal, benevolent, and propitiable God? (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: Then Job answered and said,WEB: Then Job answered, |
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