Job rewinds his life back to its beginning: the baby’s first cry, the parents’ joy. If only it never happened! After seven days of silence, sitting with his friends, Job finally broke the silence. “After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth” (Job 3:1). This is not the previous word used for “curse.” Here […]
Times of testing test friendships, too. “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity” (Prov 17:17). Bad news travels fast. “Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite” (Job 2:11). With […]
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you” (Isa 43:2). When, not if. Through, not into. “So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head” (Job 2:7). One NIH scientist thinks Job’s disease was scabies. […]
Yes, he’s a bully. He picks on the vulnerable, kicking us when we’re down. But just wait till Jesus shows up! “Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job…” (Job 2:7). Who is this vile creature who loves to curse people as God loves to bless? We’ve already met him as the “accuser […]
What a great idea: Take a shortcut in an ice storm. On a backroad hugging the edge of a precipice. In an old rear-wheel drive Buick. It was the perfect recipe for a tragedy. […]
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“Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?” (Job 11:7). My maternal grandfather was marked by reverence for God. I often heard him refer to the Deity by the words, “Him with whom we have to do” (Heb 4:13, KJV). Although the phrase seemed awkward to my ear, […]
Coming from the same mouth, curses poison blessings until you can’t tell them apart (Jas 3:10-12). Have you heard of an antiphrasis? It’s a rhetorical device where one says the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that the true intention is obvious. People exclaim, “Oh, great!” when they mean anything but. […]
’Tis the set of the sails, And not the gales, That determines the way we go.” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox Job had passed the test. “In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong” (Job 1:22). How could one consider an even more daunting trial of his faith than that, especially because all ten of […]
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