Our Fire-starter thought is if thou return to the Almighty From Job 22.

Notice our text verse 23. 

Job 22:23 KJV

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Of course we know Job's friends have been there for him during this time but they have assumed that Job has sin in his life. 

The application here is great. If we return to the Almighty and repent God can build us up. Man can build himself up but to his downfall, Christ can build a man and sustain him as long as the man stays humble in his building. 

Picture yourself as someone that is building a house. Nails going in the wood to put other portions together. Maybe Christ has added a wood of singing to your house or even added wood of being able to teach the scripture correctly or added a wood of soul winning or added wood of preaching, or being able to teach a Sunday school class. As long as God is the one that builds the house and builds man up and as long as the man that is being built by God stays humble God can continue to use that man but if he starts getting prideful or arrogant God will start piece by piece pulling nails out of the house to the point that it will fall and the foundation will be the only thing left. 

By the way let me add right here what 1 Corinthians 3:11 KJV states.

For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

We are the temple of the Holy Spirit and Christ is working in us and he can build us up or he can tear us down back to the foundation. Maybe God has got you in a place where you are returning to the Almighty. Maybe he has you in a position where you are in where you first started. 

It's time to get back to where we started and that is Christ and Christ alone. There is no telling what God can do with a Christian that stays on the right foundation or a nation that turns back to God 

Job 22:23 KJV

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Hope you have a wonderful day!!!

Job 22:1-30 KJV

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, [2] Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? [3] Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect? [4] Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment? [5] Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? [6] For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. [7] Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. [8] But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. [9] Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. [10] Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; [11] Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. [12] Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! [13] And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? [14] Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. [15] Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? [16] Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: [17] Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? [18] Yet he filled their houses with good things : but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. [19] The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. [20] Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. [21] Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. [22] Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. [23] If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. [24] Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. [25] Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. [26] For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. [27] Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. [28] Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. [29] When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. [30] He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.