Quiet day today.  Carla got called in early for work and the animals are all hunkered down where it is cool and shady.  It is supposed to be a warm one again in our neck of the woods.

Job 16:19-21 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

²⁰ My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

²¹ O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

Job 19:25  For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

Job went through some of the most terrifying tests that any man has gone through before or since.

He lost all of his wealth and all of his children.  His wife wanted him to do away with himself and his friends insisted that he was a sinner deserving of his punishment.

But, Job stood fast, he believed that God was still in charge and He still loved him.  He knew that He had a live advocate that would stand beside him and plead for him before God.

Job was one of the oldest if not the oldest book in the Bible.

But through his suffering and prayers we learn that God, even back then, assured him that there was a redeemer.  There was a man that would be with him when his time came to face God; the man would plead for him as a neighbor might plead for a friend; with passion and honesty.

That man would be an advocate for Job.

We too have a witness in heaven, who lives and will stand by us in our hour of judgement.  Even though there is a record of all we have done, both good and bad He will point out that we are His children and our sins have been forgiven because of our acceptance of Jesus as our Savior.

1 John 2:1-2  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

² And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Thank you, Lord!

Later, Art :-)