Oh how I identify with Job in these verses.
6:1Then Job answered and said:
2“Oh that my vexation were weighed,
and all my calamity laid in the balances!
3For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;
therefore my words have been rash.
As I write this morning I am sitting at the beach. I see the sand some packed and wet, other dry and loose but all when placed into a container very heavy. When difficult days come into all of our lives we may feel weighed down by our troubles. I can’t imagine how Job felt loosing all of his children, most of his many possessions, even his health. Then to be surrounded by friends who did not know how to comfort and their words were like arrows and a spouse that just encouraged him to curse God. His heart must have been weighed down with more than he could even put into words. Therefore his words were unwise yet very real to where he was. I am so thankful that when my heart has been heavy over the years God did not abandon me when my words and thoughts were not right. I find it amusing that Job said his words were rash. He and his friends had been sitting there for days in silence and now his words were coming. Real talk, my words would have come MUCH sooner and they would probably have been much worse. Yet Job was transparent in his hurt.
Oh Father, thank you for Your compassion towards us when we don’t know what to do with our hurt. Thank you that Your Holy Spirit intercedes and puts words to what we don’t even know how to voice. Thank you most of all that You take our burden and our heavy hearts and by Your grace you bring healing. It may take days, months or even years, but in your love you do bring healing and restoration.