God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ who was the daysman Job longed for (Job 9:33).
The Book of Job, probably the oldest book in the Bible, contains some wonderful truth about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Job craved a daysman who would mediate between him and God. God was so far beyond Job in wisdom and might and Job realized that there was no way for him to reason with God and change His mind about His judgment. Job sorely felt the need for a biblical daysman who would act authoritatively for both parties and was free to impose conditions on both.
Job 9:32-33:
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. 33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Job might venture to dispute with a man like himself, but not with God who knows all and sees all. Therefore, Job longed for a daysman, an oriental mediator who settled disagreements. The LXX translates the Hebrew “daysman” into “mediator.” Job yearned for a daysman, a mediator, to reconcile him and God. He sought for one who “might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!” (Job 16:21). But, alas, there was no arbitrator or umpire to settle the differences between him and God and to determine the controversy. Job looked forward to the one to come, our Lord Jesus, the blessed daysman, who mediates between heaven and earth.
Job 16:19:
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.”
Although he knew there was, as of yet, no daysman or mediator, he knew God was his witness and kept an accurate record of his life and integrity. Jesus and Paul also took comfort in the same witness (John 5:31 & 37; Romans 1:8; I Thessalonians 2:5). Somehow Job knew that he (and, by implication, every other person as well) had a “record” in heaven. This is the only occurrence in the Bible of the Hebrew word translated “record” in Job 16:19. Everything we do or say, both good or bad is recorded and we will account for it all (Matthew 12:36; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Romans 2:16; Jude 14 & 15; Revelation 20:12).
Although the record inevitably testifies against us, “for there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not” (Ecclesiastes 7:20, Romans 3:10 & 12). Were it not for our daysman, the redeemer that Job knew would live (Job 19:25) our lot would be dire. In the light of the New Testament record, we know that this daysman, this redeemer, that Job looked forward to is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. He is now our advocate “If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins” (I John 2:1-2). He has redeemed us from sin’s penalty and our record of sin and guilt has been washed clean with the precious blood of Christ. He whom Job longed for we have the pleasure and privilege of fellowshipping with today. Enjoy your day knowing your redeemer lives.