Psalm: 101 Meditation: JohnImagine your family has been doing something for years and someone tells you they know that job better than you. Through parable and metaphor, Jesus often reveals God’s truths in ways that confuse the crowd and Jesus’s own followers. It is only with explanations that we understand Jesus is talking about the followers …
Tag: Job
Sunday, July 17
Psalm: 98 Meditation: RomansWith echoes of God’s response to Job’s questions, Paul states that God deserves all glory and that it is our honor and duty to dedicate our lives to his service, transforming ourselves to the good and perfect will of God. Gospel: Matthew 25:14-30 New Testament: …
Wednesday, May 11
Psalms: 131,133,134 Meditation Wisdom: All too often we don’t “see” the triumph of the righteous, it is the wicked, rather, whom we see thriving. Earlier this year many of us had read through the book of Job. We knew, long before Job did, that God regarded him as righteous. Satan, because he craves to be …
Saturday, April 16
Psalms: 88, 95 Meditation Job: For a limited time, Job’s life was fraught with misery. In chapters 1-2 Job went from sublime prosperity and progeny (he had 10 adult children) and in the course of a day, he lost it all. Job’s attitude? “The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away.” (1:21) This passage …
Tuesday, November 9
Psalm: 119:73-96 Meditation Luke: I trust you’ve never heard: “God is going to punish you…” – most especially as a deterrent against undesirable behavior. That is pretty much the sense and substance of the book of Job; the thing is, even at its outset we are told that God found no unrighteousness in Job. So …
Tuesday, September 21
Psalm: 18 Meditation Job: God continues to question Job and his serious limitations. Leviathan sounds something like a mythical beast, but most scholars hold that Leviathan is a crocodile. If God were to pit Job against a crocodile, job would be seriously outmatched. (v. 8) I think the point here is to underscore what Job’s …
Saturday, September 18
Psalms: 127,128,134 Meditation Job: Job is facing his day of reckoning. The LORD asks him rather pointed, if rhetorical, questions. All of Job’s questions remain unanswered, principally the question “Why?” For some reason, and I don’t think it’s presumptuous to ask, we think God owes us an explanation for His behavior. The LORD reminds Job, …
Wednesday, September 15
Psalm: 119:97-120 Meditation Job: Please re-read verses 29:16-31. Notice this is Job pouring out his feelings of abandonment by God. Job does not mince his words or complaints. Most of us, when we pray and do not receive a favorable response, may the echo what Job says here. This is not to say Job had …
Sunday, September 12
Psalm: 59 Meditation Job: “Job must be guilty of something,” says Bildad the Shuhite. Further, he postulates that everyone is impure. Bildad is not a theologian so let’s agree he may not be sure of his inferences. Theologians today still debate the very same question. Veiled in there somewhere is the doctrine of Original Sin. …
Monday, September 6
Psalms: 112, 117 Meditation Job: “I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and He answered me, a just and blameless man, I am a laughingstock.” (v. 4) These words bring me back to Jesus’ last night before He died. He was betrayed by a “friend”, taken by night, and judged …
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