September 28, 2012 – Job 22

The beginning of the chapter ask a very good question.  “Can a man be profitable to God?”  It is an interesting question because sometimes we can get the notion that our actions improve God in some way or that God is better off because we have done something good.  We can also take it the other way and think that our actions have hurt God to the point that He is lessened by us.  Neither is the case.  God is infinite and beyond our ability to change, for good or ill.  Nothing we can do can diminish God and nothing we do can improve upon Him.  All that we have, are taught, are told to do, accomplish, is for our sake, our soul, our eternal salvation.  God will be God regardless of the choices we make.  The only thing that is up in the air is where we will end up for all eternity.  Although God wants us with Him, He will not force us, He lets it be our choice, and if we choose to not follow Him, God is still infinitely and eternally GOD.