Archive for the ‘devotional’ Category

Job 35:8–9: “Your wickedness affects a man...

December 30th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Because Job claimed that he had examined himself and found nothing worthy of such ...

Job 34:37: “For [Job] adds rebellion to his sin;...

December 29th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Elihu's speech against Job continued. Elihu accused Job of being in open rebellion against ...

Job 33:33: “If not, listen to me [Elihu]; hold...

December 28th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Elihu was very confident that he understood the ways of God. Without any trace ...

Job 32:6: “So Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite,...

December 27th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
In this chapter we discover that there were others listening to the dialogue going ...

Job 31:1: “I [Job] have made a covenant with...

December 26th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
In Job 31, Job defended his righteousness, telling how he had lived his life ...

Job 30:31: “My harp is turned to mourning,...

December 25th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job had lost everything and all he could do was weep and sing the ...

Job 29:1–3: “Job further continued his discourse,...

December 24th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job was longing for the good-old days, for the days when he felt God ...

Job 28:12–13 “But where can wisdom be found?...

December 23rd, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
While the human race has gained and continues to gain an ever-increasing amount of ...

Job 27:11–12: “I [Job] will teach you about...

December 22nd, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job continued to assert his innocence in answer to his friends' charge that he ...

Job 26:7: “He stretches out the north over...

December 21st, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job’s friends had been hammering him chapter after chapter, condemning him and telling him ...

Job 25:6: “How much less man, who is a maggot,...

December 20th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
The more Job lamented, the more his counselors pointed their fingers at him, accusing ...

Job 24:25: “Now if it is not so, who will prove...

December 19th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
The arguments Job's friends brought over and over again against him were simply not ...

Job 23:10: “But He knows [the path] that I...

December 18th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Eliphaz mentioned God and gold in the last chapter: "Yes, the Almighty will be ...

Job 22:8: “But the mighty man possessed the...

December 17th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Eliphaz again condemned Job; this time accusing him of oppressing the poor and needy. ...

Job 21:7–8: “Why do the wicked live and become...

December 16th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job's friends had exhausted him with their continued argument that the wicked never prospered ...

Job 20:27–29: “The heavens will reveal his...

December 15th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Zophar took up his argument against Job again, claiming that God would make a ...

Job 19:25–26: “For I [Job] know that my Redeemer...

December 14th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
In the face of all his friends' condemnation, Job held on to one truth: ...

Job 18:21: “Surely such are the dwellings of...

December 13th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Bildad attacked his friend Job for the second time. His flawed theology was that ...

Job 17:9: “Yet the righteous will hold to his...

December 12th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job realized that if believers who found themselves in similar situations remained strong, remained ...

Job 16:1–2: “Then Job answered and said:...

December 11th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job informed his friends he'd heard all the miserable statements they were telling him, ...

Job 15:14: “What is man, that he could be pure?...

December 10th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job's comforters had been taking turns hurling insults at him; and in chapter 15, ...

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December 9th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job asked God a penetrating question, one that brings us face-to-face with the common ...

Job 13:23–24: “How many are my [Job] iniquities...

December 8th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job turned his appeal from his friends, who were not helping him at all, ...

Job 12:10: “In whose hand is the life of every...

December 7th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
In chapter 12, Job responded to his "friend's" simplistic formulas and bad theology. They ...

Job 11:4: “For you [Job] have said, / `My doctrine...

December 6th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
The last "counselor," Zophar the Naamathite, stepped up to interrogate Job, bringing the same ...

Job 10:20–22: “Are not my days few? / Cease!...

December 5th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job was struggling and saying something like, "Let my last few days be in ...

Job 9:32–33: “For He [God] is not a man,...

December 4th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
God is not human. He is not a flawed man that we can simply ...

Job 8:1–3: “Then Bildad the Shuhite answered...

December 3rd, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job's second friend-accuser, Bildad, also tried to convince Job that his suffering was the ...

Job 7:20–21: “Have I [Job] sinned? / What...

December 2nd, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job was a godly man. He wasn't walking in any willful sin, and God ...

Job 6:14: “To him who is afflicted, kindness...

December 1st, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Job rebuked his friend Eliphaz in this chapter because Eliphaz believed Job was suffering ...

Job 5:8–9: “But as for me [Eliphaz], I would...

November 30th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotional
Eliphaz began to praise God's goodness, and his description of God would have been ...