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Get Me Out of The Way

LAMPLIGHT DEVOTIONAL GUIDE “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path” Psalm 119:105 (NIV). “Living From the Eternal Perspective” A Devotional From PATHH Ministries DATE: Thursday, March 24, 2011 Get me out of the way By Napoleon Black TEXT: Job 14:13 “If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! NIV Why don't you just bury me alive, get me out of the way until your anger cools? Message Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the unseen state), that You would conceal me until Your wrath is past … Amp. COMMENTARY Sometimes we feel that God comes at us hard. Job was in the throes of pain. He cried out in his pain, “Why don't you just bury me alive, get me out of the way until your anger cools?” Sometimes, like Job, we feel that God is angry at us. We feel as though we are being punished for something. In the silence of God, our intense unrelenting pain somehow shouts out to us to