above all to understand what love for Him requires, never realizing love for Him is not supported by my blamelessness, more than filial love trusted to maintain my uprightness, forcing me to abandon my father's ways, noted for scorning God's decrees they failed to obey, ones needing sincere expression by self-sacrifice, giving up oneself, confessing I can never be right in my own eye, acknowledging my sinful nature, listening to the Holy Spirit, calling Him to inscribe a new form of love, circumcising my heart, erasing intentions I had willed to dwell there, implanted by my freedom to be, replacing them with love for God, sealing it with sincerity surpassing all human understanding, marking me with righteousness growing to become indelible, silencing my tongue from further transgressions, settling me with joy and peace.
Joseph: Needing no scribes to adjust my thoughts, never allowing any to tamper with my beliefs, I always hear God and know He hears me, uniting with Him in prayer, devoted to discerning His Word, transcribed by Him into creation, transformed into more than flowers, trees, birds and stars, as I devote my attention to His cosmos, never distracted by human words or works, treasures crafted for endearment by people, inventions created by scribes.
Job: Confession has taught me to love God, training my tongue to praise Him, never speaking without any doubt, assuredly proclaiming His goodness, ignoring words of all others but to seek His almighty glory.
Bystander: You have discovered reality, never being human goodness or holiness, or heaven or hell. Redemption is the only reality, revealed by confession, turning people fixated on their blamelessness, changing them from saying what I want is anything God can do for me to make me more desirable in my own eyes, never realizing God delivers no one guarding self-established interests, protecting their self-esteem, blinding them to discern His calling.
Job: Trusting redemption requires meaning, it had no real sense for me until I worked it through for my understanding.
Joseph: Vanity preserving one's interests, defiling one by evil coming from the heart, responding to the will's directions, making indiscreet choices, choosing from innate evil, inborn inclinations to sin, dismisses what is inherently good, distrusting anything else, everything comprising God's goodness, the guardian of His reality.
Bystander: Can one cling to self-interests and love God more than anyone or anything?
Job: With all my heart do I love Him.
Bystander: With all you have put in your heart or with a fullness you were created with?
Job: With the fullness of love I would have for a best friend. Can there be any other kind of love?
Bystander: God will continue to ask all, Do you love Me. What kind of love will condition their answer?
Job: As a human being, my inheritance never consulted me in my making, giving me no say, no decision on what to be, making me neither holy nor likely to be, never distressing my soul by telling me what I should be, never stressing my reason to conform to God's standards, invisible as they are unless He revealed them to another human, a covenant to obey, never knowing how it would succeed, inspiring all to remove their purpose and follow His, knowing any covenant could eventually become obsolete, out of date, forcing God to provide a new one, changing the ground rules for redemption.
Bystander: You once viewed creation to be a mixed bag, as you struggled with your afflictions, tempting you to blame God, leaving me to wonder how you would respond to His ongoing question, Do you love Me?
Job: Without doubt God is my best friend, even though He tests me, examining my deepest thoughts and secrets, scoring my degree of righteousness, judging if I truly obey His Word, loving others as myself, loving Him more than the world, realizing love for the world conflicts with love for Him, telling me I can't have both, but is this important, being instructed to be filled with reverence for Him, knowing reverence requires fear and awe, saying little or nothing about love. How should I love Him, never knowing how to love someone I must fear, but maybe when I discover how to love Him all my fear for Him will vanish.
Joseph: Let us be thankful and please God by worshipping Him with holy fear and awe, never needing to call on Him for consciously serving and showing Him devotion, but by our never ending true love striving to join Him, modeling His image of righteousness, infinite goodness, and eternal beauty. Without reasoning, I delight in all His ways, pondering all His deeds, marveling all He does, bowing before His glory and majesty, knowing His righteousness never fails, trusting my wisdom will be magnified to obey His decrees.
Job: My blamelessness distressed others disliking me, invoking license to call me a hypocrite, ridiculing my worthiness, permitting them freedom to always criticize, disgusted by all claims of my holiness, condemning my silence on sins I tolerate, branding me a hypocrite, freeing others to call me what they disdain, a fraud dressed in remnants of righteousness, until I discovered my hidden sins prevented prospering, precluding delight from knowing God, from thriving by His grace, as He patiently waited for me to confess and turn away from sin, assuring me of receiving His mercy, releasing me from striving to be blameless, transfiguring me to become one with Him, experiencing a love to end my yearning, beyond all others, living with no end for fulfillment.
Joseph: I suffered in a manner pleasing to God, doing what was right, trusting my life to the One creating me, hoping He may judge me sufficiently righteous to be barely saved, redeeming some fragment of my worthiness, justifying me into becoming one with Him, leaving me to shutter what will happen to godless sinners.
Job: Was I right with God, trusting I might become one with Him? Indeed, when I was blameless, once without the law, never realizing His coming commandment's would reveal my sins, making my uprightness unworthy, never convicting me of being innocent, I had to wait for the Spirit of God, calling me to be obedient, reviving me before sin could take its ultimate toll, but I hesitated, wondering who can obey God to absolute perfection, pausing to consider if I had any chance. All now is past, as I am called to live a perfect relationship with God, encouraging a yearning for Him by others, dismissing any admiration for myself, thoughts hindering my usefulness to God. If I had not confessed the sin in my heart, the Lord would have never listened to me.
Joseph: Confession equips us to bring righteousness near, shrinking the boundaries of blamelessness, overwhelming us with the sense of being brought into union with God, transforming us to radiate peace and joy, completing the blessings He promises for those transfigured into being one with Him.
Job: Confession may qualify us for redemption, but it leaves most of God's knowing still behind the veil of understanding, guarding most of His reality, having had eons to create and rule, planning His tenure to be unending, extending beyond infinity, never revealing why He created me to exist only a moment, believing He should suffer my fleeting time with afflictions, giving me little peace, an existence unfilled with joy, rationing but brief instances of happiness, a gift mysteriously found only on earth. Does He create me to suffer only for making me hate His created world, hinting He might have something better to come?
Bystander: Given the will to choose, more than enough time to understand, eternal truths to research, you wasted much of your hours seeking distractions, ignoring your assignments, inherent instructions of the Holy Spirit, as you chased after fleeting butterflies of happiness, caging them for your contentment, only to see them disappear in death.
Job: Have I been a fool, dismissing words of prudent voices, following recklessness scrambling to flee into the open, responding to freedom to be myself, faithful to my impulses, true to my own ideas, even my own insights about the Lord, having been created with free will to develop religious beliefs, judging me to be upright, but anger tormented my soul, greater than afflictions suffering my flesh and bones, never resting, persisting as a burden of my choosing, proclaimed to be part of my foolishness, clinging stubbornIy to my worthless pride, never becoming the pure in heart.
Bystander: Blessed are the pure in heart, never rewarding them to be merely blameless, acknowled
ging the upright can obey laws, but each decree suggests another to be written, numbering them countless, waiting to be understood and obeyed to preserve the blameless image, whereas the pure in heart has already established spiritual harmony with God, maintaining spiritual vision with Him, assuring a time to come when they will see Him face to face. Job, perhaps blameless but never having been pure in heart, was never prepared to meet God, never hearing His voice or seeing His face, but now confession releases him to build his faith.
Job: The Lord dumbed me, silencing my words, bridling my tongue, hearing none of my pleas, burning in earnest, waiting for me to confess all wickedness tarnishing my blamelessness, until I discovered confession is the perfect offering to God, making complete those He will be making holy, hearing the Holy Spirit proclaiming this is so.
Joseph: All who exalt themselves will be humbled, until discovery shows how confession humiliates them with joy, creating in them a clean heart, asking God to renew a right spirit in them, unchaining the Holy Spirit, releasing