Today’s Reading – Job 12 – 14 (Click on the references to listen to the audio – Click here to view the passage from Blue Letter Bible)
(Second Milers Read – Ephesians 4 – 6; Psalms 36 – 40; Proverbs 8)
Read the “0608 Evening and Morning” devotion for today, by the late Charles Haddon Spurgeon
(Job 13:13-16) “Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. (14) Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? (15) Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. (16) He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
Good morning. Job is being “comforted” by his friends. And Job told them so…
(Job 16:2) “I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.”
Job was a man who walked with God.
1) Job trusted God (v. 15).
2) Job knew bad things happen in life (v. 15). Jesus said…
(John 16:33) “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
3) Job made the decision to maintain his own ways before God (v. 15)
4) Job knew God was his Saviour (v. 16)
(Acts 4:10-12) “Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. (11) This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. (12) Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
And if you don’t have Jesus, how will you ever get through what is happening in the United States?
(Romans 10:13) “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Peace!