God Speaks About You

"Oh, I've heard so much about you!" 

Have you ever heard that from someone you just met? Chances are good that you have. And our first reaction is almost always the same - from who? Who's been talking about me? We want to know that what they've been saying about us is good. 

This brings us to the story of Job. 

Job was a good man whose reputation preceded him. Everyone knew about Job, and everything they knew about him was good. His family spoke well of him. His friends spoke well of him. The townsfolk where he was clearly a leader among them spoke well of him. Everyone spoke well of him.

So did God. 

This is what's interesting. God is sitting up in the heavens on His heavenly throne, looking down at His footstool, and He's talking about Job. He's telling even the Adversary all about this good man. God can't stop talking about Job's goodness. It's how Satan gets drawn into the whole thing in the first place - God is talking about this earthly man in the heavens. 

What's cool is that even after Job is sitting in his ash heap, scratching his boils, void of family and friends, having lost everything, not doing any particular good at the moment with no standing left in the community, God is still talking about him in the heavens. 

What's really cool is that Job knows it. 

In one of his defenses to his friends, while Job was again proclaiming his innocence, he declares, "Look! Even at this very moment, my witness is there, in heaven; my advocate is seated on high." Look! Even right now, God is talking about me. He's taking up my case and defending my name and telling my story because He knows me. 

That's one of the most wonderful things about Job - just how much God speaks about the man out of His great love for him. 

Did you know that God speaks about you? Did you know that He knows your name and He's up in the heavens talking about your earthly self? Did you know that He's taking up your case, defending your name, and telling your story, yes, but that He's also just talking about you, like He was doing at the beginning of the book of Job? 

Have you seen My servant? Pretty cool dude. 

I think a lot of us are in for a shock when we get to eternity and are greeted with a chorus of, "Oh, I have heard so much about you!" from the saints who have gone before. We'll look around for a second, confused, perhaps, wrinkle our eyebrows and say, "You have? From whom?"

From your Father, of course. He can't stop talking about you. 

Even at this very moment.