Fruitful Lives - Job 29-30

Job 29:11-17 (ESV Strong's)
11 When the ear heard, it called me blessed,
and when the eye saw, it approved,
12 because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
and the fatherless who had none to help him.
13 The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me,
and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
my justice was like a robe and a turban.
15 I was eyes to the blind
and feet to the lame.
16 I was a father to the needy,
and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.
17 I broke the fangs of the unrighteous
and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

Fruitful Lives


In the beginning of the book of Job, when God was talking to Satan, God asks the following about Job:

Job 1:8 (ESV Strong's)
8 And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”

If we want to know “why” God said that and challenged Satan to a duel over Job, read again the above passages.  This is Job telling his friends what his life was like before the pain God allowed Satan to inflict upon him.   Job was a righteous man. If we want to know that righteous living looks like, we should read these acts of mercy, kindness and justice over and over.  This is what God expects from those who walk in faith with him and have the Spirit of God empowering him.  You could overlay the fruit of the Spirit on this autobiography of Job’s life. The Sprit of God produced in him the fruit of righteousness.  When we walk with Christ and in the Spirit that is what happens:

Philippians 1:11 (ESV Strong's)
11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.