The Lamentation of Job (II)
Created | Updated Jul 28, 2019
The Lamentation of Job (II)
We are not here to judge you – you judge yourself. You find yourself guilty or innocent and execute the sentence upon your own body or mind. You are your own judge, jury, executioner or jailer.
Why do the righteous suffer? Why do sinners get away with murder? Because they sin by their acts and blame the outside world for the failures. Their sin, their error is internal – in their own thoughts. The righteous suffer in silence, not because they want to but because they must. The world is made by the tolerant and patient, and destroyed by those with neither of these qualities. God doesn't punish – how can he, for he is love personified?"
Another great cry of pain went up from Job as he understand what he hadn't before.
"It is our foolishness that punishes us. In harming others, we harm ourselves. They are children in relation to the adults that rebuild this world anew each day, blessing it with their joy. Every disaster throws down this ants nest of a world and the long suffering rebuild it because they must. Those who give into the pain and misery, give up this world and drift from the path of righteousness, like leaves in the wind. They become children again – alone and abandoned by God, in their own eyes at least. It is they though who have shunned the light – wandering from the straight and narrow way.
The Lord is a mirror. Turn your back on him and he'll turn his back on you – not because he wants to or does in reality but because life is voluntary. You are here because you want to be and are free to leave at any time. Give up all effort and you will drift away from life naturally.
Fear the law, not the Lord.
Man interferes because he does not understand God's laws. When he does understand, he steps back and lets those laws work automatically. Sinners are new here. One day they will realise that this world is theirs. At that point they will stop sabotaging their own good fortune – killing themselves in the tortured belief that they are killing an enemy."
At this point Archangel Michael fell silent. For Job this manifested as a high pitched whistle in his head, reflecting the emptiness he now felt that his struggle was over. In time his body healed itself, his wife forgave him and bore him a new family. He forgave his friends their foolishness as he forgave himself for his own. His life prospered again in all ways because he had returned to the fold and was his true self once more...
(*Inspired by The Sire of Sorrow by Joni Mitchell)
