Tag: Steps and Sin - Job 14

Job 14:16-17

For then you would number my steps;

you would not keep watch over my sin;

my transgression would be sealed up in a bag,

and you would cover over my iniquity.

Tag:  Steps and Sin

Yesterday day I walked 3,226 steps.  I know this because my watch keeps count.  I am supposed to walk over 10,000 steps each day.  My wife does this easily.   I do not.   Today, in our society, we are obsessed with steps.   We want to know how many.  In the above text, however, Job is concerned that God not only knows how many, but what sins may have occurred along the way.  In my 3,226 steps, what sins did I commit?  And, what did I God do with those sins?  Note what Job earlier mused:

Job 10:14

If I sin, you watch me

and do not acquit me of my iniquity.

Job 7:20

If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind?

Why have you made me your mark?

Why have I become a burden to you?

Job 13:26-27

For you write bitter things against me

and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

You put my feet in the stocks

and watch all my paths;

you set a limit for the soles of my feet.

That was Job’s thoughts earlier about his steps and his sins.  But, in the top verses, Job is now dreaming. He is hoping for a time that God would watch his steps, but not to collect sins to punish, but to watch him for protection and to take any sins and seal them in a bag and never bring them up again.  To Job this is a dream.   For today’s believer, Job’s dream is our reality:

Hebrews 8:12

For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,

and I will remember their sins no more.”

Ephesians 4:30

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

God HAS, for those who put their faith in Christ for their salvation, and not their own efforts, sealed our sins.  

Psalms 103:12

as far as the east is from the west,

so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

David, in this Psalm, knew something Job only dreamed about.   Today we can rejoice because Job’s dream of steps and sin is true.   God counts the steps of the believer (that shows intimate knowledge) and yet does not hold those steps against us.  Rejoice!!!