Job 22

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

2 “Can a man be profitable to God,
Though he who is wise may be profitable to himself?
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous?
Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways blameless?" vv.1-3

Read chapter 22.

God may not need us but he wants us. Yet Eliphaz strangely brings up this irrelevance that man is unprofitable to God.  "Eliphaz proceeds to reply in a far more exaggerated and offensive tone than he has yet adopted, accusing Job of definite and specific crimes. He begins by asserting that the judgment of God cannot be other than disinterested, that if, therefore, He rewards or punishes, there cannot be anything personal in it."  Surely man can not add anything to God to make Him better or add to His perfection.  What Eliphaz says, is unjustly applied to Job, but it is very true, that when God does us good it is not because he is indebted to us but is because He is the God of mercy and grace.  

How have you responded rashly in an argument more because of wanting to have the last word than in grace seasoned with salt?  How does your heart respond to knowing you cannot being profitable to God?