Pleadeth

                                         Job 16:21
                "Oh that one might plead for a man with God,
                      as a man pleadeth for his neighbor"

          Job's condition was worthy of severe condemnation, but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin.  No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirmity.  Eliphaz had charged him with hypocrisy in religion, but he specifies prayer, the great act of religion, and professes that in this he was pure, though not from all infirmity.  He had a God to go to, who he doubted not.
          Those who pour out tears before God, though they cannot plead for themselves, by reason of their defects, have a friend to plead for them, the son of man "Jesus Christ" and on Him we must ground all our hopes of acceptance with God.  To die, is to go the way which we shall not return.  All of us  will go this journey.  The Saviour must be precious in our souls.  And should we not be ready to obey and to suffer for His sake?  If we are sprinkled with His atoning blood, and testify that we are not living in sin or hypocrisy, when we go the way which we shall not return, It will be a release from this evil world and an entrance into everlasting happiness in the presence of God.

                                 May God Bless You
                                 And Your Families

                                             Minister: Robert A. Lail
                                             The Cross Life Ministry