Never Read this before...

After a chapter long rant about his guilt, job concludes the following.

³³ If only there were someone to arbitrate between us,
to lay his hand upon us both,

³⁴ someone to remove God's rod from me,
so that his terror would frighten me no more.

³⁵ Then I would speak up without fear of him,
but as it now stands with me, I cannot.

Ive never read this and am encouraged by it. I love thinking of Jesus as my/our advocate. To think that Jesus as an attorney pleading on our behalf to God the Judge is really beautiful. For as bad a wrap that defense attorneys get, it is cool to think about their role. Pleading on behalf of those who have little to no plea. If we think about it in a human sense, defense attorneys are offensive in a lot of cases. In cases where the defendant is clearly guilty, defense attorneys try to get them off on some sort of technicallity, insanity plea, or at least try to minimize the sentence (reducing what we consider justice).

Our situation is no different. We are guilty before God and really have no plea. But Jesus took it a step further than trying to get us off on a technicality, insanity plea, or minimized sentence. He (as our advocate/attorney) has told the judge that yes, the defendant is guilty, but rather than have him/her serve their sentence, I would like to serve their sentence for them. Pretty cool.

I think it is quite amazing that Job realized his need for this advocate. Especially at a time when he seemed to have done nothing wrong and was the offended party.

-camel