The part that gave me a goosebumps was when Eliphaz told Job that a spirit glided past his face and voiced this to him:
"How can a human be right before Him? How can someone be pure before the Maker? Even He doesn't trust His own servants... even our bodies will be gone, dead like a dust, like a moth..."
What does that sounds like? A spirit of whom? It sounds like a spirit of lies! Why LIES? Because it is a spirit of hopelessness!
First, God is Love. Most of us know the famous verses about Love in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.. If you look at verse 7, you will find that "Love always protects, trusts, hopes, and perserves." Now you can see that this passage in Job 4:15-21 shows that the spirit is full of no hope!... Eliphaz is telling Job that he has no hope because he is full of sin and will die like a dust with nothingness! NO! It sounds like a serpent in Adam and Eve's time... the voice seems to beckon Job to a place of no hope!
I bet Job is thinking something like this "For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth." (Ps. 71:5). Since Job had been faithful before the tragedies had befallen on him!
I love how Job responded! "But what does reproof from you reprove? Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?". A definition of a despairing man is the man who is given in to hopelessness. So, Job had the wisdom to discern that his friend has the spirit of hopelessness and that it is not from God!
We should be like Job, learn to SHUT DOWN the SPIRIT of LIES. And be filled with the spirit of hope, of Love! We need to polish our inner self to make our inner self like pearls! Through our self-discipline, by shutting down the spirit of lies, to be free! FREEDOM!
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