Is God my living redeemer?

I know that my redeemer lives,
    and that in the end he will stand on the earth.
 And after my skin has been destroyed,
    yet in my flesh I will see God;
I myself will see him
    with my own eyes—I, and not another.
    How my heart yearns within me!
(Job 19:25-27)

In my previous blog (Contemplating Pain and Suffering) I shared from scripture my understanding of the meaning of suffering. I asked the question how I would fare in times of suffering. Would I still have the same view of God - a kind, compassionate, and loving God, my heavenly father? And how I needed to establish a deeper root in my knowledge of the suffering of Christ so as to prepare myself for the possible future of pain and suffering.

Today once again I came across these famous verses in the Book of Job. These verses appeared in the middle of Job's defense against his three friends who had supposedly come to comfort him (Job 2:11). I have been trying to understand Job better. At times I feel like one of his three friends - telling Job not to be so self-righteous and defensive, and to stop blaming God for his pain. But I don't agree with them either that Job's suffering was because of unconfessed sins. We know indeed that from the beginning of the book that the reason of Job's suffering was a "bet" between God and Satan (Job 1:12)! Job was indeed blameless and upright (Job 1:1).  Despite the first round of attack from Satan (when all his sheep and cattle, servants and all his children were taken from him) he said these famous words:
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
    and naked I will depart.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
    may the name of the Lord be praised.”
In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing. (Job 1:21-22)

Was Job confused? On the one hand he clearly felt that God had "wronged" him (vs 19:6) and ignored his cry for help (vs 19: 7). And yet he was able to declare that God was a "living redeemer". According to this commentary:
The word “Redeemer” is of great significance. The term is go'el which, along with its derivatives, is found about 118 times in the Old Testament. The basic meaning of the word is “to do the part of a kinsman,” and thus “to redeem” one’s kin from difficulty or danger (Harris 1980, 144). The Redeemer could: avenge a slain kinsman (Numbers 35:19-27); marry a deceased relative’s childless widow (Ruth 4:10); purchase a loved one out of slavery (Leviticus 25:47-55); or buy back a kinsman’s property that had passed from the family (Leviticus 25:23-25). The word is also used of God, as one who vindicates and redeems his people (Isaiah 43:1-3).

Not only was God his Redeemer, He was a "living" redeemer, with whom he could experienced from day to day until his physical death. The commentary continues:
Job really believed he was at the point of death. Never mind. Even though he will expire, his Redeemer lives. The Hebrew term “liveth” (hay) is actually an adjective, and is a common descriptive of deity (cf. Joshua 3:10; Hosea 1:10). Though not absolutely demanded, “liveth” may be employed in the extended sense, i.e., “lives forever” (Smick 1988, 942). The Septuagint reads: “For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me.” And so, even though Job anticipates going to his grave in suffering, nevertheless, his living-on Redeemer will have the final word. Also, the words “at the last” do not represent an adverb, suggesting a sense of time; rather, the original term is an adjective, modifying the title, Redeemer—the “last one” (Zuck 1978, 89-90). The Redeemer will be “the last”—the decisive witness.

So is God my living redeemer? Yes! He has sent Jesus to earth to redeem me from my sins (Gal 3:13-14). And he has sent his Holy Spirit to abide in me to experience his living presence until I meet him face to face. And this is a prayer from the apostle Paul for me:

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:14-19)