Finding Life beyond the struggles
Darkness has come over Job in a way he doesn't understand. The attack of the enemy has thoroughly wiped out everything he had going for him. As a man who was upstanding and righteous, it was probably hard to contemplate the why of it all. When we are attacked, when we go through hard times,... Continue Reading →
While they were there [in Bethlehem], the time came for her to give birth, and she gave birth to her Son, her firstborn; and she wrapped Him in [swaddling] cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no [private] room for them in the inn. Luke 2:6-7 AMP The World Descended In those... Continue Reading →
Do You Hear What I Hear? is actually one of the Christmas carols that inspired my first Blogmas post this year. I wrote a little bit about this carol in The Call of Christmas Carols. Today I'm breaking it down further, offering my thoughts on the context of the song and how it applies personally... Continue Reading →
They're here. Christmas music. I'm pretty sure when the clock struck twelve on November twenty-eighth, every other song was erased from the radio stations and replaced with Christmas songs. For the next four weeks it'll be the same songs sung over and over and over, in many different ways. For many that sounds like torture.... Continue Reading →
It might not look like it at first glance, but Chapters 16 and 17 of Job talk a lot about hope. Job's hope isn't in finding relief, it's in God. Yes, he speaks a lot about what has gone wrong in his life, but woven throughout his words we see his hope transfixed on God... Continue Reading →
I have come to the conclusion that Eliphaz the Temanite is a downer. However, if it wasn't important to us, if we couldn't glean and learn from it, I don't think it would've been included in God's Word. Despite Eliphaz's harsh speech, it is definitely meant to belittle Job, God uses it to speak of... Continue Reading →
In the speech spanning chapters 13 and 14, Job expresses how unseen and lost he feels. His friends have so far been no help to him, as we see in his opening, and he has not heard God's answers to his questions. I believe he is frustrated, yet he continues to hold on to the... Continue Reading →
Through a Filter. How would you describe God? The answers this question receives are different from person to person. Mankind at large sees God in many different ways. For many, God is the One who punishes out of anger. He brings fire and brimstone upon all who stick a toe out of line. For others,... Continue Reading →
In my study, the tenth and eleventh chapters of Job begin with a contrasting look between God and Man. The tenth chapter gives us a dividing image between the spirit of men and the Spirit of God. Yet we end with the relief that comes from repenting and resting in Him. There is division between... Continue Reading →
What I love about Job Chapter Nine is that Job gives us a view of God. Not in the physical sense, but His character, His wisdom, His mind. All these things we seek and wish to know. Of course God is infinite and we can never know everything about Him, but we're faced with the... Continue Reading →
Above My Waves 