You have probably heard the story of Job. He had been greatly blessed by God with earthly wealth and a large family. God allowed Satan to put him to the test. He lost almost everything he had, and then was afflicted in his own body. Yet he continued to trust in the goodness of God.

Job 2:11 When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

Most of the book, chapters 4-31, is the dialogue between these three and Job. The “comfort” these friends gave to Job was mostly telling him that he was certainly being punished for something he had done wrong. Job didn’t listen to them, but he also went too far in maintaining his innocence.

A younger man named Elihu had been listening to all of this.

Job 32:2–3  But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God. He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.

He was rightly upset with all of them for looking inside themselves for answers rather than listening to God’s Word.  Even though he was younger than them all, he was bold to speak. Why?

Job 32:8 But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.

What we all need to hear is not pious opinions, not man-made theories or thoughts, but the truth of God’s Word. And that is what everyone you meet each day needs to hear as well.

2 Corinthians 5:17–21 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

We need to keep on sharing the Good News of Jesus that we have taken to heart. When Elihu was speaking God’s Word to Job and his friends, he said this:

Job 36:2 “Bear with me a little longer and I will show you that there is more to be said in God’s behalf.”

We are God’s ambassadors, speaking on His behalf, pointing to the truth that Jesus died to save all men. May we joyfully continue to share this message.