Do you ever open your Bible in excitement, ready to study and learn, only to be utterly dismayed because you can’t understand what you read? You wonder, what’s wrong with me? As Christians we are under the false impression that because we are Christians we are supposed to understand the Bible the first time we…
An Audience With The Almighty Then the Lord said to Job. Job 40:1 My Takeaways Something Old The first question in dialogue set the tone for the remainder of the conversation. “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who accuses God answer him!” (NIV) Job 40:2 When we…
A Hearing God If you sin, how does that affect God? Even if you sin again and again, what effect will it have on him? If you are good, is this some great gift to him? What could you possibly give him? No, your sins affect only people like yourself, and your good deeds also affect…
Receive Joy and Be Restored “Why don’t people say to God, ‘I have sinned but I will sin no more?’ Or ‘I don’t know what evil I have done-tell me. If I have done wrong, I will stop at once?’” Job 34:31-32 My Takeaways Something Old Oh, how I love this. Job 33:26…
Fruit Of Self-Control My Takeaways Something Old Job Had self-control (Job 31:1) · was not guilty of falsehood. (Job 31:5-8) · was not an adulterer. (Job 31:9-12) · did not treat his servants cruelly. (Job 31:13-15) · did not victimize the poor or the weak. (Job 31:16-23) · was not greedy or…
When Suffering Asks… “I long for the years gone by when God took care of me,” Job 29:2 My Takeaways Something Old Job wants to return to the past, the days when God watched over him (v2) and he was in his prime (v4): the time when blessings seemed limitless, and suffering limited….