When You Are Asked How You Can Be Righteous, Where Are You?
- より子 逆瀬川
- May 10
- 1 min read
Job Chapter 25
These are Bildad’s final words.
“How then can a man be righteous before God?”
“Even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in His sight.”
The greatness of God
and the smallness of man are spoken of.
Bildad’s conclusion is simple.
God is great.
Man is small.
Man cannot be righteous.
There is a measure of truth
in these words.
But the problem is
that they are directed at Job.
When people become aware
of their smallness,
they fall silent.
But that silence may be very different.
Is it silence before God?
Or silence that crushes a person?
When you are asked
how you can be righteous,
where are you?
Do you close in
upon your own smallness?
Or do you stand before God
as you are?
Bildad spoke
of human smallness.
His words contain truth.
Yet they did not become words
that enabled Job
to stand before God.
Even true words
do not always lead a person
into God's presence.
God remains silent.
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