The Scene Shifts Lyrics

The scene shifts

The scene shifts

The scene shifts to forty years before

There's a man early twenties not much more

He's familiar—I think we've seen him before

Of course it's Job! But younger and visibly poor

This was before he had made his billions

Before he'd married and fathered his children

This was before his humble head had risen

From rags to riches in rich fulfilment

Of all of his faith-filled declarations

Made every morning in great expectation

That God would give power and revelation

To help him bring blessing to the nations

From what Job has himself confessed

It seems to me that we might suggest

That his faith-filled vision was put to the test

By all the blessings with which he was blessed

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Specifically we might say that his family

Regrettably dropped to a lower priority

Than multiplying his financial prosperity

So as to empower his Kingdom philanthropy

For righteous Job to idolise his job! How ironic!

And if the accusation of idolatry's too strong it

Is still worth identifying at an embryonic

Stage the sins that plague us lest they become chronic

I don't want to moralise please understand!

And in a mysterious sense someone can

Fulfil the purpose and fulfil the plans

God has for them in their generation

And yet fail their wife and fail their kids

That's what King David of Israel did!

Forgive me I'm straying from the grid--

Let's watch: Job is putting his first-born to bed

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