Job 25-28

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How Can a Man be Just with God?

Bildad refuted Job’s claim that Job was innocent and had done nothing to invite God’s judgment upon himself. “How can a man be just with God?” Bildad asked. “If even the moon has no brightness and the stars are not pure in His sight, How much less man, that maggot, and the son of man, that worm!”  Was that really Bildad’s assessment about mankind? “Whose spirit was expressed through you?” Job asked Bildad. Is man regarded by God as a maggot…a worm? Far from it. God created mankind in His own image (Genesis 1:26-27). He painstakingly fashioned the first man with His own hands (Genesis 2:7). He made mankind a little lower than Himself and crowned him with glory and majesty! (Psalms 8:5). We are God’s offspring (Acts 17:28). We are the children of God (John 1:12). We are His treasure (Exodus 19:5) and nothing can separate us from His love (Romans 8:38-39). It is a lie from the voice of the adversary, that humankind are just maggots and worms. Those who believe this are missing out on the most awesome wonder of all – that we are the children of God and that He wants an intimate relationship with us. Dear Father, thank You for revealing to us just how valuable we are to You. You have created us in Your image. We are Your children. And, “I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39).