Isn’t it amazing! Our Mediator is completely even-handed in dealing with both the holy God and us sinners. Job seriously feels the need of help. He describes his life as hurtling ahead. It’s like a fast-paced runner streaking towards the finish line (Job 9:25), like a ship in full sail breaking through the foam on […]
Put an 85-year-old man, a 150-year-old tree, and a chain saw together. What do you get? A lesson that cuts right to the heart. […]
The Holy Bible is the only great book without a title. It’s so special it didn’t need one. “Holy” means “set apart” from every other book, since it’s the only one from heaven. “Bible” is just the Greek word BIBLION, which simply means “book.” It’s THE Book. Do you wonder why there are those long […]
“‘Who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?’ But we have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor 2:16). In seeking after God, Job will later observe, we can only discover “the mere edges of His ways, and how small a whisper we hear of Him!” (Job 26:14). So if he can’t understand God, […]
Read More… from August 7, 2025 — The Case Of The Missing Clues
Jesus taught that, in true communion, we ask for God’s will before we ask for our daily needs. Remarkably, although Job is like a pugilist fighting off not one but two feisty combatants, he still has his wits about him. The first section of his response to Bildad (ch 9) begins with a portrait of […]
Logic can deftly dissect the butterfly to prove decisively that it can fly—and then it can’t. Bildad’s first speech falls into three parts. He examines Job’s horrible experiences (Job 8:1-7). Then he looks back at some historic evidence (vv 8-10), and concludes with habitat examples (vv 11-22). In the first section, there’s some serious finger-pointing. […]
“If anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know” (1 Cor 8:2). As soon as Bildad the Shuhite begins speaking, one thing is obvious: he hasn’t been listening to Job’s lament. Of course, there’s no need to listen when you’re always right. Can you imagine telling a grieving father, “If […]
Read More… from August 4, 2025 — What Know-It-Alls Don’t Know
Job shifts the topic from external influences to internal ones. What happens when hope dies? Job describes a series of scenarios involving hope. For example, “a servant who earnestly desires the shade” hopes for a break now and again (Job 7:1-2). “And like a hired man…eagerly looks for his wages,” is it too much to hope for his pay […]
Here’s a strange Bible verse: “To provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles” (Romans 11:11). Imagine a rich child, bored with their toy-filled playroom—until a poor neighbor child becomes fascinated with one of those toys. Then what does the rich child suddenly want? Now watch how a Jewish doctor gets jealous of what […]