Theme: God in Christ is ever available to hear and heed our cries for mercy.

COMMENTARY

Old Testament: Job 42:1-6, 10-17
The story of Job comes to completion as the sufferer comes to acknowledge his own finitude and God's power. Job does not receive a direct answer to his questions but receives something better, the very presence of God. "I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you" (v. 6). This verse contrasts knowledge of God from tradition with a more direct relationship of God, such as the prophets experienced. God instructs Job's friends to repent because of the bad counsel they rendered Job and to go to Job, that he might pray for them. After that, the fortunes of Job are restored and he has twice as much as before.

Old Testament: Jeremiah 31:7-9
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