of the above story illustrations has in heart about Job.
But I think the drawing of Job in a loin cloth, like
Jesus on the cross, is only one way of understanding
how Job saw himself as naked before God.
Job was an humble man. He was not like Jonah, who cursed at a people who God was determined to save. Unlike Jonah, Job was not only humble; Job was incredibly patient in affliction.
Job was not clairvoyant. He didn't know all things from God's point of view. Like the apostle Paul who came centuries after him, Job only saw his living as if looking into a dim mirror. He was surely guided in thought by the Holy Spirit, but he didn't see all things that God saw.
Job did not know it was Satan (not God!) who God had allowed to ruin life as Job knew life to be.
Job may not have remembered, or may not have known, that God had not taken part in a tornadic wind that Elijah had witnessed. But Job was obedient to understanding, in the Spirit, that God had some purpose in taking all of his adult children while they were partying in a windy storm.
When Job said, "The Lord gives, the Lord takes away," that was Job's most heartfelt, humble defense of his heart of faith. Not knowing the whole of his circumstances, Job could not say anything such as, Curse the devil.
All he could do, being in faith, is know that God had some purpose. He didn't need to know God was allowing Satan to take life and to otherwise destroy. Job didn't need to know God's hand of protection was guarding Job's soul while the devil was destroying nearly all else. Job didn't need to know it was not pleasing to God to see so much destroyed, and so much against Job's heart of faith.
But in his humility, Job essentially felt, God gave me, and God may take away.
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"For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life ... ."
2 Corinthians 5:2-4
Being alone in the Holy Spirit, Job seemed to know of his flesh as an earthly covering that one day would lose its inner spirit. Job essentially said, Naked I came into this world [in spirit without earthly flesh], and in spirit without earthly flesh will I return to the spiritual place of womb-like rest that we accept as Heaven.
