Consolations of G-d

[Job 15:11] Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
Are
those comforts, which we have propounded to you on condition of your repentance, small and contemptible in your eyes?
Consolations - the revelation one gives you. We are apt to think that great and considerable which we ourselves say, when others perhaps with good reason think it small and trifling.
Secret – “Have you talked everything over with the Father first, before you acted?”
“Or have you any secret and peculiar way of comfort that is unknown to us, and to all others?”
‘Have you some secret wisdom and source of consolation, which makes you disregard those suggested by me or others, that was treated by you as valueless?”
"Are then the mercies of G-d of no account with you?" or, "the addresses of kindness before you?"
"Can it be a difficult thing for G-d to comfort you? But you hind this by your intemperate speeches."
"Remove from you the threatening reproaches of G-d, and speak tranquilly with your own spirit."
"You have been scourged lightly for the sins which you have committed; and you have spoken greatly beyond measure; or, with excessive insolence."
"Do you not regard the threatening of G-d; or, has there been any thing darkly revealed to you."
"Are not the consolations of G-d small to you? And does a word (or thing) lie hidden with you?"
"Have you been so unfaithful to G-d, that He has withdrawn His consolations from your heart? And is there any secret thing, any bosom sin, which you will not give up, that has thus provoked your Maker?"
Chastisement comes because G-d love you so much that He consulates with you.
1. The consolations of G-d are not in themselves small.
2. Divine comforts are great things, that is, the comfort that is from G-d, especially the comfort that is in G-d.
3. The consolations of G-d not being small in themselves, it is very lamentable if they were small with us.
4. It is a great affront to G-d, and an evidence of a degenerate depraved mind, to disesteem and undervalue spiritual delights and despise the pleasant land.
Bottom line:
In our relationship with the Father, we seek His consolations, to know His will and desires for our live. In our communication with our Maker we would not walk into sin innocently for we have seek His guidance, but we were given free choices – and may choose to sin willfully, and trusting only our own counsel for the flesh appears more drawing than our spirit.
The consolations were not small with Job, and all Scripture is for there for our learning – praise or pay the piper - what chooses do you have to make and who are you lessoning to?

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