I spoke last night on Job 28:1-11 from the NASB, and I was amazed how the Holy Spirit opened the passage up so that I saw Jesus saving and seeking the lost through His church, as though He were mining for precious metals and precious stones deep within the earth.

 How He mines for the silver and the gold in our souls in the most remote places. Verse 3 shows how he carries light into the darkness, to the farthest limits, He searches in the hardened rock like soul, lost in gloom and deep shadow.

Vs. 4 tells of His search in far off habitations forgotten by all.

Vs. 5 tells how the simple needs are found at the surface, where our elementary appetites are met, but the deep spiritual things are deep within where they are melted and refined as by fire and He melts the hard rock of our heart that has been oppressed and forsaken because within there are precious sapphires!

And even in the dust, the pulverized parts of our soul He sees the gold! Oh what a searching and seizing Savior!

Vs. 7 The vultures and birds of prey will never seek our true soul needs; they are concerned with sensual appetites and care not for our true goodness.

 Vs. 8,9  Nor do the proud and violent ever look deep within us but Christ puts his hand on the flinty, angry, sparking soul, and He goes to all lengths to reach us, even to the moving of mountains in search for anything precious.

Vs. 11 Oh, and He dams up the streams of weeping, and finds what is hidden in darkness and brings out to His precious light! Oh what a Savior Divine!

  After the service last night, a thirtyish woman, covered in Tattoos, hesitatingly, in a self restrained manner, having never heard the message of Christ's searching, seeking  love, approached me, wanting to keep her distance, with walls and defenses up, but she simply had to ask me how I saw those things in the passage, it was as if her parched heart was given a deep, cool, drink of water and she had to know the source! It was if she was looking for a way to dismiss God but her heart was so moved she had to find out more, Oh it was the very moments one longs for: prays for!