January 9, 2013 Who Do You Follow?

Who Do You Follow? Job 21:14-16 “Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways. 15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’ 16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands,so I stand aloof from the counsel of the wicked.” MANY people I know and perhaps you do, too, are content to live their lives apart from God. They are often successful people from the world’s view and seem to have a good handle on their work, finances and relationships. These are the kind of people Job is referring to here. Job recognizes their worldly success, but then points to their unbelieving hearts. He wants nothing to do with such people because they disdain God’s counsel for their lives. That’s a very important lesson for all of us. There may be people in our lives whom we admire because of their business savvy, or possibly they are a good leader in a civic organization or in a political organization. But it is critical to know: Who leads them? If they are entrenched in the world’s self-thinking, believing everything they have and who they are is of their own making, then you must know that this is Godless thinking. One reason for Jesus’ miracles was to teach us that God is the one who provides all things. Who is your mentor? From whom do you seek counsel? Be sure it is one who truly knows all things come from God. It’s True! Isaiah 44:24 "This is what the Lord says — your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself.”