- So . . . I'm "feeding myself" in the morning from God's Word and thought I'd post what I'm chewin' on and make my "food" available for others who might want to nibble a bit. Hope it's of some benefit to you . . .
The word of God is living and active . . . (Hebrews 4:12)
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Category Archives: Job
Final Four
Finishing my reading plan for the year always comes with a sense of satisfaction. Maybe this year more than some others because it was been one of the few consistent things about 2020. So much turmoil, uncertainty, and disappointment in … Continue reading
Posted in Job, John, Malachi, Revelation
Tagged following Jesus, God is able, keep on keepin' on, the coming King
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Not a Dumb Bird
I’m two chapters into God’s Twenty Questions session with Job (actually, I have no idea how many questions God has peppered Job with over these 70+ verses — but it’s a lot). But I think there’s only a couple of … Continue reading
Keep Listening
A week ago I started in on Elihu’s discourse before Job. Then, as I read Job 33, I was feeling like this kid in the crowd had something worth listening to. A week later, having read Job 37 this morning, … Continue reading
The How of Suffering
Not to oversimplify, and not to be overly influenced by the ways of our current culture, but it seems to me that Job and his friends had become quite polarized in there back and forth, round-and-round-we-go debate. Though they at … Continue reading
Posted in Job
Tagged all sufficient grace, redeeming grace, redemption, restoration, suffering, trials
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Good Bottom-Line Advice from a Miserable Comforter
I think for many years, when I read Job, I didn’t really read, or at least try to listen too closely, to chapters 4 thru 37. Influenced by the big idea that Job’s friends were “miserable comforters,” while Job himself … Continue reading
Posted in Job
Tagged faithfulness, fear of God, God's faithfulness, God's testing, integrity, suffering, trials
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Some Thoughts from the Past on Losing Focus
It’s the fourth year in a row where what I’ve read in Job on this day in my reading plan has been the thing that’s lingered afterward. The taste from my samplings in both the Old Testament and New Testament … Continue reading
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Tagged Almighty God, awe of God, holy fear, reverence, the fear of God
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Stop! (Elihu, Part 2)
Okay, I am liking this kid more and more as he gets wound up and gets more comfortable with giving Job & Co. a piece of his mind . . . and a vision of God. Yesterday, I pondered Elihu’s … Continue reading
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Tagged be still and know that i am God, God's wondrous works, meditation, the works of God
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Remember to Extol His Work!
I’ve done enough reading to be okay with the fact that I don’t know quite how to peg Elihu, commentators varying among themselves as to how to understand his intervention in the book of Job. Elihu, the young, upstart peanut-gallery, … Continue reading
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Tagged exalting Christ, exultation, God's wondrous works, great God, remember, singing, the works of God
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He Hears Us
I get what Job wanted. It’s how he goes about it that kind of makes me cringe. I think I understand his frustration. But it’s his impertinence that becomes cause for warning. Oh, that I had one to hear me! … Continue reading
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Tagged God knows, questioning God, suffering, trials, trials and temptations, trusting God
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An Arbiter or An Advocate
Job thought he needed an arbiter. John says we have an Advocate. Job was looking for someone to act as judge between himself and God so he could plead his case. John knew our need for Someone to draw alongside … Continue reading
Posted in 1John, Job
Tagged an Advocate, forgiveness, imputed righteousness, our advocate, our Mediator, what a Savior
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