A Man Who Fears God

Job was a man who was blameless and upright who feared God and turned away from evil (Job 1:1). This is how the book of Job opens up. The book repeats this several times as the story goes deeper and we see Job continually seek the Lord even through trials. But what I find interesting is this is the same way that Noah is described in Genesis 6:9.

Noah was blameless before God. Alone in his generation just as Job was blameless before God alone in his generation. This struck me as interesting for several reasons.

First, how corrupt must the world have been in both accounts for these men to be alone among their peers to be blameless before God? Things are certainly bad today. But we know there are still plenty of people who seek God to walk uprightly before Him. But that was not the case with Job and Noah.

Second, being blameless doesn’t mean perfect or without sin. Nobody is perfect or without sin. But it clarifies what that means. It means to fear God and to turn away from evil. It means to follow the Lord. We may not be perfect, but we can certainly follow the Lord. We are made righteous through Christ and justified through Him (Romans 5:1).

As we go through life, we want to live like Noah and Job, as well as others we find in Scripture. May we always be seeking to stand upright before God, blameless, fearing God, and turning away from evil.