Morning Light – March 16th, 2016 Today: [Job Twelve] Did Job Commit Blasphemy? In this chapter Job answers the accusations of Zophar, his third and most vehement critic. In so doing we find that it is difficult to distinguish the character of Job’s words from those of his friends. The only differentiation between Job’s diatribes […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 15th, 2016 Today: [Job Eleven] Can God Break His Own Word? In this chapter we meet the 3rd of Job’s friends who have come to “comfort” him in his suffering. Zophar insists that God is not knowable because one can never anticipate what He will do next. Is this true? Does […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 14th, 2016 Today: [Job Ten] Was it Necessary for Job to Suffer? In this chapter Job insists that God is plaguing him unfairly. Job’s friends on the other hand insist that Job is in sin otherwise he would not be going through all of his trouble. Which is correct? Is Job […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 11th, 2016: Who Can We Rightly Blame for Human Suffering? Today: [Job Nine] Who Can We Rightly Blame for Human Suffering? Have you ever cried out in pain “why God!”? Have you ever thought if you could just figure out where your problem originated you could somehow get out from under […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 10th, 2016 Today: [Job Eight] When Friends Pile On in Your Time of Suffering. In this chapter we meet Bildad, the second of Job’s comforters. Bildad agrees fully with Elipaz that Job is suffering because he is in reality a wicked man. The premise of his thinking, in agreement with Elipaz […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 9th, 2016 Today: [Job Seven] Have You Ever Wanted to Die? In this chapter Job prays for death. He accuses God of using him for target practice. He laments because he would have preferred to die in the night rather than face another day of suffering. We all go through such […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 8th, 2016 Today: [Job Six] Never Answer Your Critics. In this chapter Job responds to the accusatory diatribe of Elipaz against him. Elipaz and Job’s other two friends are entrenched in their opinion that God has smitten Job. Job agrees (wrongfully) that God has indeed smitten him but is unjust in […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 7th, 2016 Today: [Job Five] Did Job Suffer Because He was Guilty? In this chapter Elipaz presses home his accusation that Job is in secret sin. He insists that people don’t suffer as Job suffers unless there is some craftiness or iniquity in them. Elipaz is descended from Esau and in […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 4th, 2016 Today: [Job Four] Can You Avoid Job’s Fate? In this chapter Job’s friends begin to speak. Eliphaz is the chief orator and suggests that Job is suffering because he has some secret sin in his life. On the surface his argument seems valid until you give some thought to […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 3rd, 2016 Today: [Job Three] Did Job Set Himself Up to Fail? In this chapter Job curses the day of his birth. Where did he get that idea? In the culture Job lived in it was common to mourn when children were born. In much of what Job complains about we […]
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