Thursday, February 3, 2011
Day 4 Job Chapters 1-5
What a powerful time this has been and we have only been doing this 3 days!! Thank you for all the wonderful conversation!! I look forward everyday to time with the Lord and then time with you all. I would say we truly can not live on bread a lone ... this is living!!!! feeding on the Word of God!!!
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This is so cool. We can share so much of what God is teaching us in such a fast and fun way. Keep on munchin'.
ReplyDeleteEven though it's full of suffering and heartache, I love reading the book of Job - for its honesty and clarity. More than that, though, I love realizing that God is not "absent" during all the times of suffering - but that God is there with His persevering Purpose and Plan (there's that concept, again - God's Plan.
ReplyDeleteIt's also interesting always to read Job's friends' comments to their suffering friend. Some helpful, some not helpful, some wisdom from God, some not (Job's wife, for example).
My favorite verses here, though are these: Job 5:7-8 spoken by Job's friend, Eliphaz, "Man is born for trouble, as spark fly upward. But as for me, I would seek God and I would place my cause before God." I've captured verse 7 before (Man is born for adversity as sure as the sparks fly upward) but I never realized the great counsel afterward: Eliphaz says, "Ask God, talk to Him."
Isn't that true of us all. Downcast eyes don't look up. Look up to the heavens in prayer. Ask God for wisdom, clarity, direction, help.
And the following verses 9-11 "9 Who does great and unsearchable things, Wonders without number. 10 He gives rain on the earth And sends water on the fields, 11 So that He sets on high those who are lowly, And those who mourn are lifted to safety."
Yet another day - packed with promises of our precious Savior!
Loving this study, loving this God!
My thoughts this morning "I just don't feel good and I didn't get every much sleep.. Maybe I can go back to bed..." Patricia you right this is very cool. I had already read. And when I got on here to see if anyone had commented I remembered the words I had read. WOW No more thinking about me. I have just been to visit a friend who has special need kids... Well between that and Job and knowing that God is so much in control and no matter what He knows and He is there... still I went back to my self pity. Thank the Lord for you to help me take the focus off of me and put it back on the Lord. This study is a huge blessing munch munch munch.. Thanks for eating this bread of truth with me yall. I think I will go and read today's again.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to take more thought.. I'm thinking the friends even when they are saying wonderful thing ... I don't think they get it...?
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you on here Patricia, thanks for the encouragement.
ReplyDeleteThis is so full of "meat", that it is hard to distill it into a short comment. Here goes:
Overall, it was amazing to me to realize that God had preserved knowledge of his precepts and a desire to honor Him for over 1,000 years from Noah.
Of course, we see the contrast in the man focused theology of Eliphaz--that God is a reactor to what man does, thus putting man in control; and the righteousness of Job who committed to glorify God and to trust Him.
I actually see the "prosperity gospel" in the way Job's friends are thinking that if they are good, they will prosper. Doesn't man always think the world revolves around him?
Anxious to get onto tomorrow's reading. Bon appetit!!! May God's grace abound.
Marsha ;-) that is what I was thinking about the Eliphaz too... its a slow fade..
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