There is a place just beyond the horizon where the milk and the
honey flow without reserve. Water surging down the mountain streams
into the river of the valley is in bountiful supply. The plants of
its fields, the herbs of its grass, and the trees within its
boundaries are pleasant to the sight and good for food. In the
valley, there is peace and joy where everything that happens is
always just and right. Human words cannot express the majesty of
the glory that permeates every hill, every plain, and every
crevasse of the valley. It is a beautiful garden of Paradise where
man can spend and enjoy the full days of his life. The grandeur of
this magnificent garden drove a man many, many years ago to cry out
that he would lay down his life to protect the essence of its
glory. The response to that cry, however, was a simple question,
"Will you?" Sadly, the reality of the man's effort brought only
denial, after denial, after denial when the opportunity came to
make the sacrifice. Mercifully, the Expression of God entered into
the inadequate effort of the struggling man. Reaching down to an
uplifted hand, the visible Expression of God said, "Let not your
heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." The
story of Job, the story of every man, is the struggle to believe
that the Expression of God can indeed take man to the place where
he was intended to dwell. The story of Job began simply with,
"There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that
man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed
evil" (Job 1:1). Although the beginning of Job sounds like the
aspirations that most men desire to achieve, it is only the
beginning of the story of Job. Mysteriously, the "good" produced by
man for God must be replaced by the greater good produced by God in
man. The story of Job is actually the story of how God brings man
to the place of the greater good. The end of the story of Job
reveals the greater good, experiencing the Garden of Paradise. The
three fairest of the fair daughters of Job reveal the end for which
all men were created. As was the custom of the day, Job named his
first daughter to commemorate what was happening in his life at the
time of her birth. The name Jemima means "warm affection." Job now
knew that he was being loved. The name of his second daughter,
Kezia, means "to strip off, that is, (partially) scrape as to strip
off the bark of a tree." At this point in the life of Job, he had
been stripped of the controlling influence of his intellect, his
emotions, and his will. He had been delivered from his captivity.
He has been brought to a place of completion (perfection). Job
named his third daughter Karenhappuch. It means "horn of cosmetic."
Like a horn of plenty, Job was experiencing at this moment the
abundance of the life of God. He knew the great Cosmetologist had
beautified the experience of his life by placing him in the Garden
of Delight, Paradise. Job heard God speak, the Expression of God,
and he was taken to a wonderful mansion to spend the days of his
life. The author of Job proclaimed, concerning Job's arrival at the
place where he was intended to dwell, "After this lived Job an
hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even
four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days" (Job
42:16, 17). The consummation of all our lives is to be brought to
the place where we could live the days of our lives in
soul-satisfaction (literal meaning of full of days). God brought
Job to where he not only was experiencing God (as all men do), but
also he was now able to know, to appreciate, and to revel in the
joy of the life of God he was experiencing. The beginning of life
(Genesis) had been brought to the end (Revelation) of life. It is
the mystery of living in a physical world and yet being able "to
eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the paradise of
God." This is the story of Job, the story of every man's path to
the Paradise of God.
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