Today, I am reading and commenting on Job 34-37.

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As I read Elihu’s monologue here I was struck by how what he says mirrors conclusions reached from philosophy by some Christian apologists which I have heard speak.  One of those Christian apologists is a man who does not know the Bible as well as would be good, but he starts reasoning from first principles to conclude that God must exist and that all of reality only exists because God sustains it.  Here, Elihu says in chapter 34 verses 14 and 15 that if God should set His heart to it and withdraw from reality all flesh would perish and return to dust.  This is but one example of how we can use reason to learn truths which the Bible reveals.  We do not believe things just because the Bible says so.  We can apply our reason to come to what the Bible says and see that what it says tells us about the world in which we live.

I am going to quote something Elihu says and draw a lesson from it although I am not quite sure what is meant by it in the context.  Elihu in verse 31 and 32 of chapter 34,  “For has anyone said to God,
    ‘I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;
teach me what I do not see;
    if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?”  I want to focus on the second part of that.  We should ask God to show us what sins we commit without being aware.  We should seek for God to make us aware of the sins we didn’t realize we were committing so that we can stop doing them.  If you cannot see ways in which you continue to sin, ask God to show you those ways, then ask His Spirit to aid you in discontinuing those sins.

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