Today’s Word
An Idiomatic Life
And Job died, an old man and full of days. Job 42:17 NASB Full of days – What is the result of a life devoted to God? In Hebrew thought, it isn’t getting to heaven. It’s living out the full purposes of God’s design here on earth. In other words, it’s experiencing a life “full…
Sackcloth and Ashes: Travels with Job (10)
“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye sees You;” Job 42:5 Hearing – What is the difference between hearing God and seeing Him? The Hebrew term shama is a familiar one. Today we often stress the double action of the word shama, i.e., to hear and to obey. But…
Sackcloth and Ashes: Travels with Job (9)
“I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.” Job 42:2 NASB Purpose – Do you really believe that God can do all things? Perhaps we are only truly capable of such a statement when we have suffered the inexplicable at the hands of YHVH. It’s easy to…
Sackcloth and Ashes: Travels with Job (8)
“I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me. “You have become cruel to me;” Job 30:20-21 NASB Not answer – And what if God doesn’t answer? What if we never hear from Him? What if we live those thirteen years of…
Sackcloth and Ashes: Travels with Job (7)
“For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,” Job 3:13 NASB Been quiet – Silence is an emotional response to trauma. It doesn’t have to be. Silence can be the emotional response to awe, to majesty, to gratitude. But that would require prior…
Sackcloth and Ashes: Travels with Job (6)
“Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?” Job 3:11 NASB Expire – The end of erosion is questioning. Questioning is not doubt. We don’t doubt that God exists, that He is good, that He is just or that He is sovereign. We question His motives. So does Job….
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