The Wicked Prosper (1/9)

Daily Notes & Observations

Thought from today’s Bible reading from Job 21-23. “Why do the wicked still live, continue on, also become very powerful? Their descendants are established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes, their houses are safe from fear, and the rod of God is not on them. His ox mates without fail; […]

Continue reading...

I Know That My Redeemer Lives (1/8)

Daily Notes & Observations

Thought from today’s Bible reading from Job 17-20. “As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will take His stand on the earth” (Job 19:25). Job’s troubles were not going to be solved by his own actions. He understood this. Only God could deliver him. Despite the fact that […]

Continue reading...

Man is Short-Lived and Full of Turmoil (1/7)

Daily Notes & Observations

Thought from today’s Bible reading from Job 14-16. “Man, who is born of woman, is short-lived and full of turmoil” (Job 14:1). Job, while enduring the degree of hardships that most of us will never face, well understood two facts that are easy to forget when everything is going well.

Continue reading...

Hope in God (1/6)

Daily Notes & Observations

Thought from today’s Bible reading from Job 10-13. “Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him” (Job 13:15). Job was in a miserable state, unsure why he was suffering as he was. His friends had been telling him this was God’s doing, a divine punishment for […]

Continue reading...

Disputes with God (1/5)

Daily Notes & Observations

Thought from today’s Bible reading from Job 6-9. “In truth I know that this is so; but how can a man be in the right before God? If one wished to dispute with Him, he could not answer Him once in a thousand times” (Job 9:2-3). Far too often, man tries to argue with the […]

Continue reading...

Blessed Be the Name of the Lord (1/4)

Daily Notes & Observations

Thought from today’s Bible reading from Job 1-5. “Blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21). It is typically easier and more natural to praise God during times of blessing and prosperity. Yet this was not the occasion with Job. He had just received word that his sons and daughters and much of his […]

Continue reading...

Soldiers of the Victorious Lamb

It is an inescapable reality that we are involved in a war – not the type of war that nations wage for wealth, resources, or territory; but a spiritual war for the souls of men (2 Corinthians 10:3-5). While the final outcome of a physical war is always unknown, the result of this spiritual war […]

Continue reading...