Job 15:16

How much less, one who is vile and corrupt,

   You who drink in iniquity like water.

 

My big statement yesterday was, “All but once.” I did not eat well. As always, it was a result of me being weak. It makes me want to change the second stitch to ‘You who inhale food like air.’

‘Vile’ was also ‘abominable’, ‘loathsome’, and ‘foul’. ‘Corrupt’ was also ‘filthy’, ‘foul’, and ‘disgusting’.

‘Drinks’ was also ‘guzzels’. ‘Iniquity’ was also ‘evil’, ‘wrongdoing’, ‘mischief’, and ‘sin’.

I started yesterday with two work tasks to finish for the year. One was preventing me from concentrating on the other, and the one was not fitting in my paradigm. After hours of not working on it because I did not want to do hand calculations, I finally caved and proved the program I was using was correct. Not my preferred way to get to an answer, but I do not like being wrong either.

The paradigm attacked in this set of verses is that angels are great, and men are worthless in comparison. The outcome is that both the company of angels and people are made up of a range of individuals who fall varying degrees short of perfection. Only God is God, and only He is perfect. The rest of us cannot help but fall short because of how He made us.

One of the unique aspects of Christianity is that we cannot earn righteousness. Only through faith in the perfection of God and submission to Him can we restore our relationship with Him to the state in which He made us to fulfill. Other options all say that we can do enough to become what some other deity will accept as good enough. God is Holy and it is only through the cleansing of Christ that we can come be worthy to come before Him.

(Short and to the point.)

 

Written 12/18/24, Posted 1/22/25, Job 353