Day 268..."Another friend speaks...forgetting how to blush...Romans 5!!!

Zophar offers his advice to Job..."if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent, then you will lift up your face without shame;you will stand firm and without fear. You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by. Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning." I do like the hope of Zophar...though he presumes Job is the culprit of his suffering because of sin. (Sin/suffering and goodness/blessing are not always this apparent) Job feels in the next chapter he has become a laughingstock. When humankind becomes comfortable with disobedience they forget how to blush. Is there no shame? Could this be said in anyway today..."Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush." Romans, chapter five, is packed with inspiration and theology. There is a word about perseverence..."Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us" The theology is also clear that Jesus died for sinners..."Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." There is also the good news that grace and righteousness triumph over sin and death..."so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Job would have liked Romans chapter five, as he struggled to understand his suffering.