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
Mar 6, 2022, 8:52 AM
Passage Read: Job 9-12
Meditation Verse: 10:3
Thought
Job has worked hard to be righteous, so that he expects everything to go well for him. He has done everything he knows to do in order to satisfy God's requirements. So when this happens, he cannot understand. Because his righteousness is more about him than about God. He does what is right for his own good rather than simply because it is right and God deserves his obedience. If he understood that his life was for God, to show God as right, then his confidence in his righteousness wouldn't lead him to question God and even accuse God of wrong.
Mar 5, 2022, 8:53 AM
Passage Read: Job 5-8
Meditation Verses: 7:17-21
Thought
Even Job thinks he must have sinned, but he has no idea what. So to him it seems that God is constantly watching and looking for his every mistake, for his slightest failure. He has been working so hard to get things right, to please God, he even offers sacrifice for his children when they finish a round of feasting, just in case they sinned in the process. He has been so careful and now he is sure the Lord caught him in a sin and hammered him for it.
Mar 4, 2022, 8:54 AM
Passage Read: Job 1-4
Meditation Verses: 4:17-20
Thought
Eliphaz has seen a spirit, but I don't think this is an angel of God. This sounds like an accuser, possibly The Accuser, Satan himself. Where did this question about man being more righteous than God come from? Godly men don't seek to be purer or more righteous than God, they only seek to attain to His righteousness. And God does entrust tasks to His angels, and to men, though He certainly superintends all things, to help them succeed, not because He is suspicious of them, but because neither have all power as He does.