When You Try to Prove Your Own Righteousness, Where Are You?
- より子 逆瀬川
- May 16
- 1 min read
Job Chapter 31
Job offers a long defense of himself.
If I have acted unjustly.
If I have deceived others.
If I have neglected the poor.
Then let me bear the consequences.
Here Job speaks at length
about how he has lived rightly.
In the midst of suffering,
he is trying to prove
his own innocence.
When people are misunderstood,
they want others to understand them.
They want their righteousness
to be recognized.
But who is that proof
really directed toward?
When you try to prove
your own righteousness,
where are you?
Do you insist on your righteousness?
Or do you let go of the need to prove it
and stand before God?
Job speaks thoroughly
about his own righteousness.
What is Job still clinging to?
God is still silent.
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