3.226 I Know That My Redeemer Liveth

In Matthew 5, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth and the light of the world, reminding us that our lives are meant to preserve, illuminate, and point others to him. This season on Savory Salt, we'll walk through the Old Testament, one verse and one thought each day. Perhaps these moments will add greater savor and brighter light to our lives as we seek to truly live as Savory Salt.

Hello, my friends. It's a new day with new opportunities. Choose ye this day whom you will serve.

A nod to our day in the Old Testament and in the middle of Job's challenges? That's what I thought as I was doing my reading of the book of Job this week and landed in about the middle of our readings in Job chapter 19. A fascinating couple of verses inside of here as Job is going through his challenges and kind of enumerating them, listing them out.

We get to this verse here that gave me pause. One, because it's inside the Old Testament, we don't necessarily really get a strong glimpse. And so, not to get too like ecclesiastical there, but here we have a verse in the middle of Job 19 where he's kind of going through his list of his challenges.

Clearly he had a difficult time with. We don't need to enumerate all of those as he does. And then we get this snapshot here that just gave me pause.

I want to share it with you and then share a thought about it. Job 19:25 is our verse for today. And Job says this, "For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth." Now, if you were to just give pause in that verse alone, the Latter-day Saint context of it would be very similar for us to hear.

In fact, Latter-day is in the verse. So we hear that and we go, look, evidence, evidence of today's church here in the Old Testament. And yet there's plenty, thousands, millions that would read this verse and have no context to it in the way that we see it.

First of all, when he says, "For I know that my Redeemer liveth," there's not often that you see this type of terminology in the Old Testament here with his reference to the Redeemer. I love the footnote that it adds here, this idea that the Redeemer during Old Testament days would have been like a relative or somebody that's going to restore the things that have been lost from, right? Like restore your possessions or your status in society, something that's coming back to be restored.

I think for you and for me, we have those difficult days. We have those times where relationships burn up or somebody hurts us or somebody takes something from us through theft or our house burns down or any number of difficulties that Job experiences, and we want those things restored back to us. We want them brought back into our lives, and here Job testifies that his Redeemer is going to do that for him and that he's going to stand.

The reality of God and Jesus Christ as beings with flesh and blood. Something that in today's modern Christian world is still often debated and questioned. My friends, I'm grateful that Job takes an opportunity in the middle of his challenges here to testify directly of Jesus Christ, his Redeemer.

Maybe we should just back up there for those that are saying, "Hey, you're going too far." So I'm grateful he's willing to testify of the knowledge of his Redeemer, someone who will stand and restore those things that he has lost. My friends, I think you and I have opportunities in the middle of our challenges to stand and testify of our Redeemer, that there will come a day where a full restoration of all that has been lost, taken, hurt, destroyed, Thank you for watching. Thank you for watching!