Suggested Bible Reading: Genesis 22-24 Devotional Thought: At the age of 75, Abraham enrolled in the “School of Faith.” By chapter 22, he was over 100, and he was still having faith-stretching experiences. We are never too old to mature through new challenges, maneuver through new battles, or manage through new truths. When we stop…
Suggested Bible Reading: Genesis 19-21 Devotional Thought: “Come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord.” (2 Cor. 6:17) God’s command to His children has always to be distinctly different from the world. He commanded every dispensation to live in such a way as to help point people to the character of…
Suggested Bible Reading: Job 40-41 Devotional Thought: “Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.” (vs. 2) God asked Job a very probing question. Have you ever questioned God’s goodness, God’s wisdom, or God’s love? Asking God “why” has more to do with our attitude than…
Suggested Bible Reading: Job 38-39 Devotional Thought: In chapter 38, God takes Job on a tour of creation and asks a series of questions. Job was sure that his speeches had been filled with wisdom and knowledge, but God’s first question put an end to that delusion: “Who is this that darkens My counsel with…
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…
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…
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…