After Bildad the Shuhite gives a great speech about God’s justice, how he will only charge the guilty with wrongdoing, but will uphold the righteous, Job asks a great and much more pertinent question.  It’s one I enjoy asking my friends:

¹ Then Job replied:  ² “Indeed, I know that this is true.
But how can a mortal be righteous before God? (Job 9:1-2)

What would your answer be if you were sharing with a friend?  Listen to Job revel over the complexities:

³ Though one wished to dispute with him,
he could not answer him one time out of a thousand.
⁴ His wisdom is profound, his power is vast.
Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?
⁵ He moves mountains without their knowing it
and overturns them in his anger.
⁶ He shakes the earth from its place
and makes its pillars tremble.
⁷ He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;
he seals off the light of the stars.
⁸ He alone stretches out the heavens
and treads on the waves of the sea.
⁹ He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
¹⁰ He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,
miracles that cannot be counted.
¹¹ When he passes me, I cannot see him;
when he goes by, I cannot perceive him.
¹² If he snatches away, who can stop him?
Who can say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
¹³ God does not restrain his anger;
even the cohorts of Rahab cowered at his feet.
¹⁴ “How then can I dispute with him?
How can I find words to argue with him?
¹⁵ Though I were innocent, I could not answer him;
I could only plead with my Judge for mercy. (Job 9:3-15)

Pleading each day and thankful for the mercy of God displayed in the face of Jesus Christ.