A Longed-For Mediator
“There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.”
A GAP KEENLY FELT
Job feels the distance between an infinite God and a suffering man so acutely that he names exactly what is missing: someone in between.
HANDS ON BOTH SIDES
Job imagines someone able to touch both God and himself — a bridge reaching both sides at once.
A LONGING THAT BECOMES PROPHECY
What Job asks for as an impossibility becomes reality centuries later in Christ, the only one fully God and fully man.
PAIN THAT SEEKS A BRIDGE
In the middle of his anguish, Job does not give up on God — he searches for a way to draw nearer, not farther away.
WE HAVE WHAT JOB ONLY DREAMED
"There is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" — Job's cry already has a name for an answer.
DRAW NEAR THROUGH THE MEDIATOR
Act: before breakfast, bring God something you feel is too distant to reach alone, and thank Christ for being the bridge Job did not yet have.