Personal Devotions ⁽⁶²⁷⁾

Passage Read: Psalm 3-6 Meditation Verses: 6:8-10 The psalmist is hopeful, even confident that the Lord will hear his prayer and deliver him, especially when he's been grieving and weeping through the night. The Lord is inclined towards the humble, towards the weak, towards those…

Passage Read: Job 41 - Psalm 2 Meditation Verse: Job 41:11 Our arrogance is that we think God owes us something, when in truth we owe Him everything. There is nothing He owes us but what He binds Himself to provide. We are His, and…

Passage Read: Job 37-40 Meditation Verse: 37:13 Elihu, and then God, both indicate that God uses bad weather to discipline or bless men. So God's intent should be considered when bad weather happens. Good weather obviously is the result of His mercy and grace, since…

Passage Read: Job 33-36 Meditation Verse: 36:13 Elihu is rougher on Job than any of Job's friends. He is brutal in his assessment of Job. Because of that he is far off the mark of understanding what Job is suffering and what God is doing.

Passage Read: Job 29-32 Meditation Verses: 31:13-15 Job understood that though he had servants, yet he was no different from them. He understood that he too was a servant of God and would be judged by how he treated others, even his slaves. He owed…