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Earned a Badge — Created 100 Highlights
2012-05-17
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2012-04-14
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Be a man.
Something in me really likes how God finally addresses Job. Like a coach to a slacking player, a sergeant to a private, or a dad to his whining son: "Get ready and be a man!" Without ever giving an answer…
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I know what I'm talking about
Whether or not we actually say the words, we can come across like Elihu. "I'm speaking for God. I've got perfect knowledge." Well meaning Christians are in real danger of turning others off when we speak…
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Job 36:1 (ESV), Job 36:2 (ESV), Job 36:3 (ESV), Job 36:4 (ESV)
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2012-01-12
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Whirlwind
Is this a literal whirlwind, or figurative? I know that God "speaks" to me in the midst of confusion and pain. When I am at wits end and all my pat answers and proof-texts have failed to bring comfort…
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God knows I've been good.
In this chapter Job makes a case for his character by citing ways that he has disciplined himself and lived with integrity where most other men have compromised. He has not looked at a young woman lustfully,…
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Job 31:1 (ESV), Job 31:2 (ESV), Job 31:3 (ESV), Job 31:4 (ESV), Job 31:5 (ESV), Job 31:6 (ESV), Job 31:7 (ESV), Job 31:8 (ESV), Job 31:9 (ESV), Job 31:10 (ESV), Job 31:11 (ESV), Job 31:12 (ESV), Job 31:13 (ESV), Job 31:14 (ESV), Job 31:15 (ESV), Job 31:16 (ESV), Job 31:17 (ESV), Job 31:18 (ESV), Job 31:19 (ESV), Job 31:20 (ESV), Job 31:21 (ESV), Job 31:22 (ESV), Job 31:23 (ESV)
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God is silent and cruel to me.
I have to think that every believer has felt this way. As soon as suffering comes we pray like we have never prayed. As it continues, we begin to think that God is not hearing--because nothing happens.…
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Job pities his loss of esteem
When times are bad, we all tend to look around ourselves and imagine that everyone derides us. Everyone considers us losers.
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Job 30:1 (ESV), Job 30:2 (ESV), Job 30:9 (ESV), Job 30:10 (ESV), Job 30:11 (ESV)
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Reminiscing about the good 'ole days
Job is still doing what all of us experience when we suffer. He daydreams about how good he had it before things went wrong. He longs to have it as it once was. God's blessings were his and so were the…
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Job 29:2 (ESV), Job 29:3 (ESV), Job 29:4 (ESV), Job 29:5 (ESV), Job 29:6 (ESV), Job 29:7 (ESV), Job 29:8 (ESV), Job 29:9 (ESV), Job 29:10 (ESV), Job 29:11 (ESV), Job 29:12 (ESV), Job 29:13 (ESV), Job 29:14 (ESV), Job 29:15 (ESV), Job 29:16 (ESV), Job 29:17 (ESV)
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2012-01-10
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Man's wisdom...and God's
Even though humankind has figured out how to do so much, we don't understand all of God's ways. His wisdom is much higher. It is hidden from us. Job seems to state these truths in realization of the…
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Job 28:12 (ESV), Job 28:13 (ESV), Job 28:20 (ESV), Job 28:21 (ESV), Job 28:23 (ESV), Job 28:28 (ESV)
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The wicked ultimately lose.
Even though Job struggles in previous chapters with the fact that wicked people sometimes prosper, he recognizes an important truth. Ultimately they lose. And when bad things do happen (as they do with…
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Job 27:8 (ESV), Job 27:9 (ESV), Job 27:10 (ESV), Job 27:13 (ESV), Job 27:14 (ESV), Job 27:15 (ESV), Job 27:16 (ESV), Job 27:17 (ESV), Job 27:18 (ESV), Job 27:19 (ESV), Job 27:20 (ESV), Job 27:21 (ESV), Job 27:22 (ESV), Job 27:23 (ESV)
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Stubborn determination for integrity
I love that Job persists in his determination to do right. He will not lie by conceding to his friends that there must be some buried sin in his life. Sometimes being falsely accused can be as painful…
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Job 27:3 (ESV), Job 27:4 (ESV), Job 27:5 (ESV), Job 27:6 (ESV)
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Sometimes speaking truth isn't what the hurting need.
After Bildad speaks sound truth to Job, he gets a well-deserved ear full. Job, in what seems to be a very sarcastic tone, makes a good point. Sometimes we offer truth to people hurting when it is not…
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Bildad's right.
I agree. God is great. By comparison to his holiness (or, "light") no man is pure. We are maggots and worms by comparison.
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Job 25:1 (ESV), Job 25:2 (ESV), Job 25:3 (ESV), Job 25:4 (ESV), Job 25:5 (ESV), Job 25:6 (ESV)
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It's not fair
This whole chapter is Job pointing out the irony: Bad people oftentimes prosper--in this world.
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Job 24:1 (ESV), Job 24:2 (ESV), Job 24:3 (ESV), Job 24:4 (ESV), Job 24:5 (ESV), Job 24:6 (ESV), Job 24:7 (ESV), Job 24:8 (ESV), Job 24:9 (ESV), Job 24:10 (ESV), Job 24:11 (ESV), Job 24:12 (ESV), Job 24:13 (ESV), Job 24:14 (ESV), Job 24:15 (ESV), Job 24:16 (ESV), Job 24:17 (ESV), Job 24:18 (ESV), Job 24:19 (ESV), Job 24:20 (ESV), Job 24:21 (ESV), Job 24:22 (ESV), Job 24:23 (ESV), Job 24:24 (ESV), Job 24:25 (ESV)
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I'm afraid of what else God has for me
Job comes full circle, in a sense. He starts wanting to see God and to present his case. Now, after thinking about it, he is afraid of what God might do if he actually did show up. Perhaps he is afraid…
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God's unchangeable purpose
What a great statement by Job of God's determination to accomplish his purposes. What he has decreed can not be changed. In his providence, all variables are working together for good.
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God knows I've kept his ways
Another normal way we handle suffering, we make our case to God. "I've been really trying to do things your way, Lord. You know how much progress I've made." Although I'm not able to say like Job that…
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2012-01-09
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Where is God?
A common experience when we suffer is to ask, "God, where are you? I don't see you in this." Feeling abandoned by God while in pain is how God grows us. Like a parent watching when her child looks around…
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Reading Plan
2012-01-05
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-01-22
