Good Morning “Clinging to Eternal Hope.”  Today we are in Job 30.Job continues his most hopeless lament.  Our hearts can’t help but break for him.  Despite knowing that Job, like us, deserves whatever God chooses to bring upon us.  We like Job have earned it by our sin (Romans 3:23).  Only one has ever been sinless - Jesus.  “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own w...  Read More

Good Morning “Used as an Example”.  Today we are in Job 29.Job laments… if only I could go back to the days of my prime, when God was with me, when he guided me and comforted me.  In the midst of Jobs horrible suffering he was missing out on something incredible.  GOD WAS WITH HIM.  It was the Footprints in the Sand poem being lived out.  “When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that ...  Read More

Good Morning “Wisdom Seekers, God Fearers.”  Today we are in Job 28.Job had a deep understanding of what was to be valued.In Job 1:1b regarding Job we are told “…this man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.” Job‬ ‭1‬:‭1‬ ‭NIV‬‬What a statement!  As we get to this chapter and read Jobs words, perhaps we find the reason that Job was the way he was.  He believed Gods Word - Wis...  Read More

Good Morning “Those Learning From Job.”  Today we are in Job 27.  Although Job remained faithful to God in the midst of horrific testing, he was not perfect.  We get it - most of us likely would respond similarly or even worse.  There is value in us humbly considering all parts of Jobs response.  Without climbing onto our “ivory tower” and arrogantly passing judgment; we must be careful to learn f...  Read More

Good Morning “Discerners of The Voice of God.”  Today we are in Job 26.  Job responds after Bildad’s attempt at rebuking him.  First he greets him asking “How are any of your words helpful?” Then he challenges him to consider where these words are coming from.  We received that answer back in Job 4:12-19 with Jobs friend Eliphaz.  It should come as no surprise to us that the evil one, Satan, who p...  Read More

Good Morning “Impossible on Our Own.”  Today we are in Job 25.  Bildad responds to Job, and he’s far from nice.  In his face is an understatement.  “How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?”‭‭Job‬ ‭25‬:‭4‬ ‭NIV‬‬It’s a rhetorical question… we cannot possibly be righteous before God as a mortal.“If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in hi...  Read More

Good Morning “Careful Demanding Justice.”  Today we are in Job 24.Jobs friends have a twisted good equals blessing, bad equals punishment belief system leaving no room for Gods Grace.  They also pay no attention to the fact that Gods thoughts and ways are not our thoughts or ways (Isaiah 55:8-9).  His are way higher than ours and always perfect.  Job responds with examples of perceived injustice o...  Read More

Good Morning “Blessed to be Invited to Approach God.”  Today we are in Job 23.  Job desired to dialogue with God the Father.  He wonders why?  Likely we would wonder the same.   If we’re honest, we do - each time we hit a bump in the road.  Why God?  What did I do to deserve this?This is review for most of you following along…The Holy of Holies, or the Inner Room of The Temple was where the High P...  Read More

Good Morning “Knowers of Enough Not to be Dangerous.”  Today we are in Job 22.  I must confess… to me, Eliphaz sounds like a resounding gong.  When he starts babbling once again, I have to purpose to really focus to even take in his words.  Why?  He may know some of Gods Word, but he has dangerously misapplied it to Jobs life when Job did nothing to deserve his rebuke.  His words become empty… In ...  Read More

Good Morning “Not Always Blessed the Way We Like.”  Today we are in Job 21.  Job responds to Zophar by posing some of his own questions that challenge Zophar’s prosperity way of thinking.Why do the wicked seem to proper at times while the righteous face suffering and trials.  Jobs question can be summed up with a single word… perspective.  The world believes long life, health, and lots of shiny th...  Read More

Good Morning “Seekers of Everlasting Joy.”  Today we are in Job 20, the last of Zophar’s comments.Once again one of Jobs friends kind of speaks Truth.  At least for the most part, Zophar is correct as it relates to Gods dealing with the wicked, although it didn’t apply to Job.  “That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless momentary?”‭‭Job‬ ‭20‬:‭5‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬It’s critic...  Read More

Good Morning “Yearners For The Savior.”  Today we are in Job 19.Jobs lament continues with a recounting of all that he has lost, and how bad his health has become.  This passage is similar in some ways to the words of Isaiah, as in Isaiah chapter 53, as he prophesies regarding Jesus.  Job is a type of Jesus but with some differences.  Job suffered, Jesus suffered . . Some of the suffering was simi...  Read More