The ignorance – or rejection – of God and who He is coming from so many in the world today continues to stun me despite my understanding of Biblical history and Scripture’s foretelling of what is to come. Paul spared no sympathies for those who live their lives in such a fashion. In Romans 1:18-23…
Posts Tagged: Job
Job 29:2 – The Months of Old
Clichés often carry much wisdom. How true it is that when we have our health, we have everything! Job would certainly ascribe to this. Because of circumstances completely out of his control, i.e. Satan wishing to prove a man’s unfaithfulness to God, Job was the target. It could have been him; it could be you…
Job 28:20 – From Where Does Wisdom Come?
Why does wisdom seem so elusive? There is so much knowledge in the world, but smart people appear devoid of wisdom. Man has extensive capabilities to discover the unknown, yet common sense is a rarity. What are we to make of that? Job provided the answer in one of his monologues to his friends. Although…
Job 21:7 – Why Do the Wicked…
Life is full of mysteries. There are things that happen all around us for which there are seemingly no answers. We observe them and wonder, “What in the world… ?” In our questioning, we might also ask, “What could God possibly be thinking to allow that?” Whatever that is. Job, who was so beset by…
Job 19:29 – Wrath Brings Punishment
In the midst of Job’s travails, he said many profound things. He was suffering from Satan unleashing an ungodly amount of hardship upon him, and he rightly had trouble dealing with it. He asked God why He was punishing him on one hand; then on the other he professed confidence that the Lord was just…
Job 4:6 – Fear of God Your Confidence
Once Job had been clobbered with disaster, some of his friends heard about his plight and came to give him comfort. At first they reacted in a way that truly gave Job solace. We see this in Job 2:13: And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one…