My Redeemer Lives

       I was sitting on a pulpit next to a recent seminary graduate who had come to our church to deliver a message.  He made the comment that when he went into seminary, he felt that he knew all there was to know about theology but upon graduating from Seminary, he then felt that he knew absolutely nothing.  Sometimes we get caught up in the amount of knowledge we think we have only to find that we are really quite short in that department.  There are a lot of people in this world that can say something about a lot of things but who are really not experts on any one thing.  That however, doesn't stop them from talking about what they don't know.  There are times, however, when a statement is made, that  one might think, "How did they know that?"  Such is the case in the following Scripture passage.    Job 19:25-27 says, "  For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:   And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:  Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me."  
       If Job was a New Testament book, we might better understand his statement, but, obviously, the book of Job is Old Testament and considered to be perhaps the oldest book in our Bible.  Job, however, had wisdom from God and could make the above statement which is a statement that is far greater than many people can make in this age.  Job, in his day, could declare that he knew that His Redeemer lived and that he, Job, would someday see him in his own flesh in spite of the fact that he would die.  The promises of God are rich in these few verses.  It wasn't going to be a second hand experience because he was going to see for himself and stand before God.  Wow!  What a promise.  It should be an encouragement to us in these days that even a man in the time of Job could know that His Redeemer lives.  There are many  people today who cannot say this simply because they do not know God and feel that they are just wandering about on this earth and someday will die and that will be it.  They are filled with despair and have no hope.  We, one the other hand can rejoice even as did Job that our Savior lives.  Praise God today that He has given us His Word.