SCRIPTURE: Job 25 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: God is powerful and dreadful. He enforces peace in the heavens. Who is able to count his heavenly army? Doesn’t his light shine on all the earth? How can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone born of a woman be pure? God is more glorious than the moon; he shines…
“I wish you enough”
I recently read this story on the web, and it stuck with me. It made me think about my own family, and what it is I wish for them? Recently I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. They had announced her departure and standing near the security gate, they hugged and…
He is watching
SCRIPTURE: Job 24 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: They may be allowed to live in security, but God is always watching them. [Job 24:23] Well put, Job, this is really what seems to go on in the world! All over the world there are examples of injustice, oppression, violence and crime against people. We live in a cruel, messed up world;…
my daily bread
SCRIPTURE: Job 23 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread. [Job 23:12] With all of his heart, he tried to honour and obey the Lord; he paid close attention to God’s teaching, and did his best to live according to…
church like Eliphaz or Jesus?
SCRIPTURE: Job 22 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Submit to God, and you will have peace; then things will go well for you. [Job 22:21] If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored— so clean up your life. [Job 22:23] What intrigues me is how “christian” the words that Eliphaz speaks. This sounds a lot like the message the church…
I choose Jesus’ answer
SCRIPTURE: Job 21 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: When I think about what I am saying, I shudder. My body trembles. Why do the wicked prosper, growing old and powerful? They live to see their children grow up and settle down, and they enjoy their grandchildren. Their homes are safe from every fear, and God does not punish them. [Job 21:6-9]…
which way do I lean?
SCRIPTURE: Job 20 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: They were always greedy and never satisfied. Nothing remains of all the things they dreamed about. Nothing is left after they finish gorging themselves. Therefore, their prosperity will not endure. [Job 20:20-21] Have you ever met a greedy person, one who was never satisfied? Greed is but one expression of the poison of…
struggling faith
SCRIPTURE: Job 19 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last. And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God! I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at…
bottom line of the rhyme
fire and brimstone?
SCRIPTURE: Job 18 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step. Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble. Disease eats their skin; death devours their limbs. They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors. [Job 18:11-14] Bildad the Shuhite is…