Gems of Knowledge

Today’s One Year Bible Verses: Job 40:1–42:17; 2 Corinthians 5:11–21; Psalm 45:1–17; Proverbs 22:14

Good morning! What a morning! Praise God this day, for He has given us a “wonderful message of reconciliation” and called us to be His Ambassadors! (2 Corinthians 5:18–20, NLT)

In Job 42 God speaks, and we realize that the persecutors thought they were righteous in defending God but spoke wrongly out of pride and arrogance. They wronged God by making prosperity a mark of the true church and affliction a certain proof of God’s wrath—and this just isn’t so! They grieved the person and God, and found themselves needing the very person they condemned to reconcile them before God. We must be careful! And we must be humble, never assuming we understand more than we do. Nor should we judge another man’s standing with God.

We also see Job, God’s faithful servant, humble himself, repent, please God, and be made right before Him. But Job—the one persecuted and offended—also had to forgive, wholly forgive, so thoroughly that he was willing to bring his persecutors before God and make intercession for them. It was this complete surrender of self to God that enabled him to do what was required.

It was only after this that God returned his fortune: “In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before,” showing God’s great mercy and grace to Job and the world! (Job 42:10, NLT)

We must “understand our fearful responsibility to the Lord (and) work hard to persuade others… having all died to our old life… the old life gone; a new life has begun! And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to Himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him… So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making His appeal through us… so that we (can all) be made right through Christ.” (2 Corinthians 5:11–21, NLT)

Let us be like Job—an Ambassador of God—never persecuting others, but instead humbling ourselves before God and men, repenting and forgiving, that we may bring others before God for redemption as well. This will glorify and honor God and us! Amen! 🙏

Action (5 minutes)

Reconcile & Intercede:
Ask the Holy Spirit to bring one person to mind—someone you’ve judged or someone who’s hurt you. Write a one-sentence blessing over them and pray 2 Corinthians 5:18–20 aloud, asking God to use you as an ambassador. If the Lord prompts a next step (text, apology, encouragement), write it down and do it today.

Short Prayer

Lord Jesus, humble my heart. Make me a true ambassador—quick to repent, quick to forgive, and ready to intercede—so Your appeal of reconciliation is heard through me. Amen.

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