Suggested Bible Reading: Job 36-37 Devotional Thought: In the final part of Elihu’s speech against Job, he must have felt his audience was getting rather restless with his nonsense, because he pleads with them to patiently hear him out. “Suffer me a little, and I will show thee that I have yet to speak on…
Suggested Bible Reading: Job 32-35 Devotional Thought: Elihu listed two of what he understood Job’s complaints to be: “God is unjust” (vs. 5-6) and “There is no profit in serving God” (vs. 7-9). He answered the first complaint in verses 10-37 and the second complaint in chapter 35. It is sad that we as Christians…
Suggested Bible Reading: Job 29-31 Devotional Thought: I cannot even understand the depth of Job’s despair, the monument of hurt and sorrow, or the level of shame and disappointment. This chapter lets us have a small glimpse of how badly he was hurting. Job contrasts his life in chapter’s 29-30. In chapter 29 he states…
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PlayStop Popout X Melchisedec in the Bible is a significant personality. He teaches us much about God’s program. In the Old Testament, the altar of worship and the throne for ruling were to be kept distinctly separate. However, Melchisedec, priest of the Most High God, was also King of Salam. In the Hebrew, the name…
Suggested Bible Reading: Job 14-16 Devotional Thought: Job 14:13-15 says, “O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed…
Suggested Bible Reading: Job 10-13 Devotional Thought: In chapter 11, Zophar, a supposed friend makes three accusations against Job: (1) Job is guilty of some sort of sin, (vs. 1-4) (2) Job is ignorant of who God is and what He is really like, (vs. 5-12) and (3) Job is too stubborn to repent and…
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Suggested Bible Reading: Job 6-9 Devotional Thought: Eliphaz ends his speech in chapter 5 with reminding Job that the same God who hurts also is a God who heals; therefore, he encouraged Job to bargain with God and strike a deal where God would restore all that Job had lost. “For he maketh sore, and…
Suggested Bible Reading: Job 1-5 This year I am reading through the Bible in a more chronological approach. It will seem a bit disjointed from time to time if you are following my reading schedule. However, I believe there are some tremendous benefits to following the events of scripture chronologically. You have no doubt heard…