Category Archives: relationship with God
it’s a wonderful life
Job 42:7-17 Job’s restoration begins when God intercedes, and the first thing to be restored is his relationship with those three therapists. Job takes the upper hand and prays for them. This is more than simply a vindication of Job’s … Continue reading
Posted in compassion, dependence upon God, family, Job, relationship with God
Tagged Job 42
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honest to God
Job 30 What we hear in this chapter is the prayer of a man who is used to being honest with his creator. He has been humbled and has suffered unjustly and he is not just sitting around quoting worship … Continue reading
the good old days
Job 29 Listening to Job describe the kind of life he had lived, it is not hard to understand how much of a temptation he had to do as his wife had suggested: curse God and die. But Job remained … Continue reading
reversal of fortune
Job 20 Zophar argues that reversal of fortune is always God’s doing. Those who are exalted (6) he brings down to the depths. Those experiencing sweetness (12) he poisons. The full he devours (22,26). A world in which our condition … Continue reading
outward appearance
Job 11 Zophar is guilty of only seeing what has happened to Job and assuming that it proved that Job has acted foolishly and brought this tragedy upon himself. He urges Job to repent. Job lived in ignorant times, and … Continue reading
truth collides with truth
Job 9-10 Job affirms that Bildad is right in saying that God is just. But he is also convinced that he has a right relationship with God, so nothing he had done brought this calamity upon him. Truth collides with … Continue reading
Posted in dependence upon God, Job, plan of God, relationship with God
Tagged Job 10, Job 9
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sign or substance?
Job 8 Bildad uses an excellent argument, which would no doubt have been very successful except for the fact that Job was innocent. Bildad compares Job’s previous fortune to that of a Papyrus plant, which grows quickly and looms above … Continue reading
impatient and dismayed
Job 4-5 Eliphaz accuses Job of being impatient and dismayed. The world that Eliphaz knows about is one in which everything happens according to set rules. He cannot imagine a scenario in which a person who is truly righteous is … Continue reading
from bad to worse
Job 2 Job’s victory over his circumstances (and the devil behind them) is seen in the fact that God still boasts of his integrity as he did before calamity struck. So, Satan pleads for more control. The LORD gives him … Continue reading
a right relationship with God
2 Kings 22 Josiah’s deep repentance for what his ancestors had done was not enough to reverse the curse the nation had put upon itself. But it was enough to ensure that he would be gathered to his fathers (buried) … Continue reading
Posted in conditional immortality, eternal life, Judah, relationship with God, resurrection
Tagged 2 Kings 22
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