Yesterday is today’s reason for considering eternity for eternal judgment is rendered on yesterday’s decisions and actions.
Job 8:8-19
Back in 1965, The Beatles had a big hit song named “Yesterday”.
“Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday.”
I’ll bet that Paul, John, George, and Ringo didn’t know that their song would be the introduction for a blog sixty-six years later. Not only would they not know what a blog is, I’d also bet they wouldn’t care.
By the way, it just dawned on me… this is the second post in a row that I’m quoting lyrics of songs. It wasn’t planned that way, it just happened.
Kinda like life sometimes…
Yesterday’s Tiny Words. Big Life. post talked about how a life of faith and obedience to God can have you singing Aretha Franklin’s song, Respect, at the Pearly Gates.
Today’s post, on the other hand, is about a song that you definitely don’t want to sing when you get there.
In today’s Tiny Words. Big Life. Bible verse, we’re in the Book of Job. As you probably know, Job was offered up to Satan by God as a man who was “blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil”. In Chapter 8, after many terrible things have happened to Job, we find Bildad, one of Job’s three friends who were there to supposedly help Job, offered up a line of reasoning that tried to get Job to see that he had sinned and was being punished for it.
Basically, he’s accusing Job of not learning from the wisdom of the ages – the yesterdays.
Although the Book of Job is as beautiful as it is complex, it lands on one central theme. God is sovereign over all things and God keeps His promises. He blesses those who believe in Him.
The Tiny Words. Big Life. takeaway is this: Pray to live your life in repentance of your sins. Pray for strength to turn from sin and ask God to forgive you.
And remember, R-E-S-P-E-C-T is earned from what you did Y-E-S-T-E-R-D-A-Y not what you plan on doing T-O-D-A-Y.
Job 8:8-19
8 “Ask the former generation
and find out what their ancestors learned,
9 for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,
and our days on earth are but a shadow.
10 Will they not instruct you and tell you?
Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?
11 Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh?
Can reeds thrive without water?
12 While still growing and uncut,
they wither more quickly than grass.
13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God;
so perishes the hope of the godless.
14 What they trust in is fragile;
what they rely on is a spider’s web.
15 They lean on the web, but it gives way;
they cling to it, but it does not hold.
16 They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,
spreading its shoots over the garden;
17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks
and looks for a place among the stones.
18 But when it is torn from its spot,
that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’
19 Surely its life withers away,
and from the soil other plants grow.