32Ⅰ "He has stripped my glory from me / And taken away the crown on my head. / He has broken me all around, and I am gone; / And my hope is plucked up like a tree"—Job 19:9-10.
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33Ⅱ "I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, / But now my eye has seen You; / Therefore I abhor myself, and I repent / In dust and ashes"—42:5-6.
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34Ⅲ What Job had attained in his perfection, uprightness, and integrity was altogether vanity; it neither fulfilled God's purpose nor satisfied His desire—1:6-8; 2:1-3; 27:5; 31:6; 32:1.
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35Ⅳ God's intention with Job was to consume him and to strip him of his attain-ments, his achievements, in the highest standard of ethics in perfection and uprightness—19:9-10:
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36Ａ God's intention was to tear down the natural Job in his perfection and upright-ness that He might build up a renewed Job in God's nature and attributes—1:6-8; 2:3-6.
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37Ｂ God's stripping and consuming were exercised over Job to tear him down that God might have a base and a way to rebuild him with God Himself so that he might become a God-man, the same as God in His life and nature but not in His Godhead, in order to express God—Eph. 3:16-21.
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38Ｃ How much of Christ we have gained is according to how much stripping and consuming we have suffered—2 Cor. 4:16.
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39Ｄ It is through His stripping and consuming that God dispenses Himself into those who love Him and seek after Him—1:8-9; 13:14.
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40Ｅ God's purpose in dealing with those who love Him, even in the way of loss, is that they may gain Him and that He may be expressed through them for the fulfillment of His purpose in His creation of man—Gen. 1:26.
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41Ⅴ After we have been stripped and consumed by God, we will see God—Job 42:5; 2 Cor. 3:18; Heb. 12:14; Rev. 22:4:
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42Ａ We see God so that we may be constituted with God to be the same as God in life and nature, yet we do not have any share in the Godhead—John 1:12-13; 2 Pet. 1:4.
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43Ｂ When we see God, we receive God and have His nature, life, element, essence, and being—Matt. 5:8.
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44Ｃ To see God is to be transformed into the glorious image of God; this makes us not only one with God but also a part of God that we may express God in His life and represent Him in His authority—2 Cor. 3:18.
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45Ｄ Eventually, Job saw God; however, the God whom Job saw was the "raw" God, not the processed God, the God who has passed through the steps of His process—incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension—Job 42:5.
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46Ｅ In contrast to Job, we have the "cooked" God, the God who has been processed so that we may eat Him, drink Him, and breathe Him—John 6:57; 4:14; 20:22.
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47Ｆ Our God is the processed and consummated Triune God, who is the consum-mated life-giving Spirit—7:39; 1 Cor. 15:45b.
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48Ｇ The Triune God as the all-inclusive Spirit dwells in our regenerated spirit to be our life, our nature, our essence, and our everything so that we may be con-stituted with Him for His expression—6:17; 12:12.