OT Promise 273: Mediator

Job 9:3233 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might put his hand upon us both.

This is not a promise as such, but it is an implied promise. It is actually a prayer, a request, a hope, a dream spoken by Job in his misery. He is praying for a man to be a mediator between Almighty God and himself, a mortal man. His hope and prayer turns out to be a Messianic Prophecy of Jesus Christ. He is the answer to Job’s prayer. He is the only hope for every human. He is the promise of God become visible and real and vital for us. He is the God become a man. He is the mediator (“daysman” in KJV) between us, who puts his hand upon us both.

1 Timothy 2:5: “For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” 1 John 2:1: “But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate (attorney, mediator, daysman) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” God, to whom man can find no way, has in Christ creatively and effectively opened up the way in which may and must go. Job could not know this, of course, ahead of time, but he could still believe God to create a way where there is no way. He could not see a way for the Almighty, Eternal, All Holy God to be united with puny, mortal sinful humans. But God did it.

We often find ourselves in impossible predicaments with no visible way out, but our Lord will find a way. He promises. And if He can do it with the most intractable problem ever, He can and He will do it with our problems.