Finding Life beyond the struggles
This portion of Elihu's speech focuses on the question: What does it profit a man to be friends with God? This is something Job spoke without first addressing all the ways God had originally blessed him. Job was of the mind that God gives and takes away, yet we must remember that fresh and salt... Continue Reading →
Elihu has a lot to say about Job's accusations against God. He wastes no time reminding those gathered that God is just, something Job's arguments have been in contradiction with. Elihu also reminds us that God's justice isn't in favor of one person or another, but it comes to all, but even within His justice,... Continue Reading →
The difference with Elihu's speech is that while Jobs other friends spoke accusations against Job, working to get him to admit he had done something wrong and must've brought on this punishment from God, Elihu speaks of how God redeems and restores. He speaks of God's true nature. Elihu's speech is the definition of edifying.... Continue Reading →
If I had to label Chapter 30, I'd label it as a Look at Differing Opinions. There's the People's Opinion, which Job relates to in the first few verses, and there's God's Opinion. The difference between the opinion of the assembly and God is vastly different here. While Job is complaining about how he'd recently... Continue Reading →
In the Twenty-Ninth Chapter of Job, we are given a glimpse of Job's life prior to the enemy's attack. Job was in a place of position and helped prosper his community. He was honored and respected, people called him blessed and sought out his counsel. Yet all of it had become empty. Job had so... Continue Reading →
In the middle of his suffering, Job worships God. So far he's displayed his belief and trust in God, even in the face of his friends' unbelief and accusations. Now with Chapter 28, Job lays everything aside and praises Wisdom, a characteristic of God. Throughout what some versions label as a Hymn, we see how... Continue Reading →
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 →
Above My Waves 