Post by Woody Williams on Nov 17, 2005 4:54:38 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- Job 16:1-5, 16-17
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Then Job answered:
I have heard many such things;
miserable comforters are you all.
Have windy words no limit?
Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?
I also could talk as you do,
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you,
and shake my head at you.
I could encourage you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
My face is red with weeping,
and deep darkness is on my eyelids,
though there is no violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
Devotional
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Job's friends are convinced that Job did something wrong so that God
had brought this judgment upon him. Job tires of their words and
continues to put forward his innocence - "There is no violence in my
hands, and my prayer is pure." Job is right on that point. He has
done nothing wrong. Tragedy is not necessarily a judgment of God for
things done wrong.
Prayer
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Keep me alert to your workings in my life, Lord. Amen
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Then Job answered:
I have heard many such things;
miserable comforters are you all.
Have windy words no limit?
Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?
I also could talk as you do,
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you,
and shake my head at you.
I could encourage you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
My face is red with weeping,
and deep darkness is on my eyelids,
though there is no violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
Devotional
----------
Job's friends are convinced that Job did something wrong so that God
had brought this judgment upon him. Job tires of their words and
continues to put forward his innocence - "There is no violence in my
hands, and my prayer is pure." Job is right on that point. He has
done nothing wrong. Tragedy is not necessarily a judgment of God for
things done wrong.
Prayer
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Keep me alert to your workings in my life, Lord. Amen