Post by Woody Williams on Feb 16, 2006 7:27:58 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- Job 30:16-23
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And now my soul is poured out within me;
days of affliction have taken hold of me.
The night racks my bones,
and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
With violence he seizes my garment;
he grasps me by the collar of my tunic.
He has cast me into the mire,
and I have become like dust and ashes.
I cry to you and you do not answer me;
I stand, and you merely look at me.
You have turned cruel to me;
with the might of your hand you persecute me.
You lift me up on the wind, you make me ride on it,
and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.
I know that you will bring me to death,
and to the house appointed for all living.
Devotional
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Job laments his condition. He pours out his soul as his life is
stripped from him by God. The people in town mock him and think he is
evil because he is losing his prosperity. But it is really God who is
making him ride on the wind and is tossing him about in a storm. God
is Job's enemy at this point. Bad things happening to good people is
hard to understand. Unjust suffering is one of the deep mysteries we
face and one of the great challenges to faith in God.
Prayer
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Keep me faithful, gracious God, when the storms and suffering come.
Amen
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And now my soul is poured out within me;
days of affliction have taken hold of me.
The night racks my bones,
and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
With violence he seizes my garment;
he grasps me by the collar of my tunic.
He has cast me into the mire,
and I have become like dust and ashes.
I cry to you and you do not answer me;
I stand, and you merely look at me.
You have turned cruel to me;
with the might of your hand you persecute me.
You lift me up on the wind, you make me ride on it,
and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.
I know that you will bring me to death,
and to the house appointed for all living.
Devotional
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Job laments his condition. He pours out his soul as his life is
stripped from him by God. The people in town mock him and think he is
evil because he is losing his prosperity. But it is really God who is
making him ride on the wind and is tossing him about in a storm. God
is Job's enemy at this point. Bad things happening to good people is
hard to understand. Unjust suffering is one of the deep mysteries we
face and one of the great challenges to faith in God.
Prayer
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Keep me faithful, gracious God, when the storms and suffering come.
Amen