Morning Light – April 12th, 2016 Today: [Job Twenty-Nine] Do Good Works Leverage God? In this chapter Job looks longingly back at his past prosperity. He believes that now God has unfairly abandoned him. Did God abandon Job? If you are suffering could that ever be properly construed that God is punishing us in some […]
READ MORE Morning Light – April 11th, 2016 Today: [Job Twenty-Eight] Is Wisdom What You Know or Who You Know? In this chapter Job decries the lack of wisdom among men. He compares the pursuit of wisdom to the efforts men make to mine precious gems and metals from the earth. From Job’s standpoint wisdom is to […]
READ MORE Morning Light – April 8th, 2016 Job Chapter Twenty-Seven: How Should Job Respond to His Friends? In this chapter Job continues his last and final monologue. He describes his idea of divine retribution. He accuses his friends of being among the hypocrites and declares that hypocrites will suffer the direst fate at the hand of […]
READ MORE Morning Light – April 7th, 2016 Today: [Job Twenty-Six] Job Describes God. In this chapter Job begins his longest monologue in the book of Job. He draws on very negative adjectives to describe God. He uses words such as “nakedness, hell, death, binding, reproof, smiting, etc.” as his word association responses revealing what his thoughts […]
READ MORE Morning Light – April 6th, 2016 Today: [Job Twenty-Five] Are You a Worm? In this chapter we hear the last time from Job’s comforters. Bildad speaks up and declares to Job that (in his view) no one and nothing in creation can be made pure. He even goes so far as to suggest that even […]
READ MORE Morning Light – April 5th, 2016 Today: [Job Twenty-Four] Are You Self Righteous? In this chapter Job complains that God let’s the wicked get away with murder while he suffers unfairly. This is a common error that we all make at times. The wicked suffer and we feel it is God’s justice. We suffer and […]
READ MORE Morning Light – April 4th, 2016 Today: [Job Twenty-Three] Is Fear a Sin or a Symptom? In this chapter Job continues to complain and mourn that God (in his view) is tormenting him so viciously. Is God tormenting Job? In reality we will see through properly studying Job that it was fear that opened the […]
READ MORE Morning Light – April 1st, 2016 Today: [Job Twenty-Two] Rejecting the Opinions of Men. In this chapter we hear thankfully for the last time from Elipaz. In his final assault on Job all the gloves are off and he excoriates and denounces Job utterly. His idea of repentance (in his view) is for Job to […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 31st, 2016: Do Only the Good Die Young? Today: [Job Twenty-One] Do Only the Good Die Young? In modern culture there is a deep fatalism that suggests that piety and godliness are generally rewarded with suffering and difficulty. In this chapter Job expresses this sentiment, claiming that it doesn’t make any […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 30th, 2016 Today: [Job Twenty] Was Job Wrong to Answer His Friends? In this chapter we see Zophar speaking again against Job. He strengthens his criticism of Job and insists that Job is wicked and is paying even for misdeeds from his youth. Have you ever had someone bring up your […]
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