Personal Devotions
Notes from Mark's personal Bible reading and meditation
With a goal to apply one truth from each day's reading to my life that day
Apr 3, 2025, 6:43 AM
Passage Read: Job 41 - Psalm 2
Meditation Verses: Psalm 2:9-12
Thought
The Lord has appointed Jesus to rule the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter and dash then to pieces. This doesn't seem like the Jesus we talk about in church. The palmist warns the kings of the earth to be wise and be warned: They had better serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling; they had better kiss the Son, bowing the knee in obedience and fealty.
Apr 2, 2025, 7:01 AM
Passage Read: Job 37-40
Meditation Verses: 38:1-4
Thought
Knowing all He allowed to happen to Job, knowing how righteous Job has been, God still comes in like a flood! He is not soft and gentle. He is not compassionate and understanding. He blasts Job with question after question, illustrating how much greater God is than even the most righteous of men. It is sad that in all Job's understanding, he did not realize that we exist to honor and glorify God, in whatever circumstances that come upon us.
Apr 1, 2025, 7:12 AM
Passage Read: Job 33-36
Meditation Verses: 33:29-30
Thought
Elihu believes he can explain to Job exactly what is going on, and where Job is wrong. He believes he can do so better than Job's three friends, men older and wiser than him, who failed to bring Job to repentance. His argument is that God warns men all the time of their sin and need for repentance. Perhaps in a dream or in a quiet voice in the heart or through trial and suffering. So the terrible things that have happened to Job are obviously God's way of telling him he needs to repent.