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Job chapter 4 verse 17. Can mortal man be in the right before God?

Can a man be pure before his maker? These words are

spoken to Job by one of his supposed friends when he's in the middle of

darkness and it's one of many examples in the words of Job's

friends where what they say is true but when they say it and how they say it and how they apply that truth is

unhelpful so think about those words can moral man be in the right before God can a man be pure

before his maker the answer is no not in and of himself we are sinners

before God we can't make ourselves pure before God.

So it's true that we cannot make ourselves pure before God at the same time when Job is in the middle of darkness and he's

experiencing suffering not because of sin in his life but actually because of blamelessness in his life he doesn't need a friend

who's trying to explain his suffering by accusing him of sin.

And so I want to lead us to pray for wisdom,

to know when and how, to speak truth

into each other's lives, especially when we're talking with people who are going through really hard times for us to ask God for his help in speaking truth and love and knowing when to say what.

Obviously we don't want in our lives to hold back from speaking truth out of fear, but we do want to apply truth carefully and wisely under the leadership of God's spirit.

So God help us, we pray.

To one no truth, we pray that you would fill our minds with truth that as we read your

word and meditate on your word that you would conform, transform our minds according to your truth.

And then God we pray the would help us to be wise in speaking truth

and help us to know when to apply truth and how to apply your truth to comfort others.

God, we don't want ever comfort people with falsehood.

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