(REFLECTIONS ON Job 11:1-20) Today we turn to Zophar, the last of Job’s three friends to speak. Eliphaz approached Job carefully based on his experience and personal observation. Bildad then responded not just with experience and personal observation, but tradition, cultural wisdom, and history. Zophar is the harshest of the three friends, perhaps because he has […]
(REFLECTIONS ON Job 9:1-35; Job 10:1-22) God is sovereign. This is something that comes up over and over again in Job’s responses. Job acknowledges that God does whatever He desires, He doesn’t have to explain Himself to us, in fact even if we see what He is doing we could never fully understand, make sense of, or […]
(REFLECTIONS ON Job 8:1-22) In today’s Scripture, we see Bildad appear as the second of Job’s friends to respond to him. Bildad doesn’t take a theological view of explaining truth to Job, but rather bases his response on experience, history, and the way the world works. 8 “Please inquire of past generations,And consider the things searched […]
(REFLECTIONS ON Job 6:1-30; Job 7:1-21) Theology is research, study, mediation, worship, and prayer concerning God. Theology’s aim is to understand God so that we can worship Him and give Him glory. However, what good is your theology when what is needed is compassion and grace? What Job needs from his friends is kindness, but rather what […]
(REFLECTIONS ON Job 4:1-21; Job 5:1-27) Eliphaz is the first of Job’s friends that speak up. Although he accuses Job of being impatient, through the words on the page, we can almost hear Eliphaz’s impatience in wanting to correct Job for cursing the day he was born. Eliphaz’s conclusion can be found in Job 5:17, 17 […]
(REFLECTIONS ON Job 3:1-26) In all that has happened to Job, he did not curse God. Even when his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!” Job did not curse God. However, in today’s Scripture, we see Job curse the day of his birth. Job cries out, 11 […]
(REFLECTIONS ON Job 2:1-13) Everything was taken from Job, yet in his brokenness, he responded with worship. Yet, accusers and adversaries don’t just come around once in a lifetime, but just as we have gotten over one challenge, immediately another comes. Again the accuser, the adversary, that is Satan, challenges Job’s faithfulness by asking God to […]
(REFLECTIONS ON Job 1:1-22) As we begin to look at the Book of Job together as a church, let us consider this man, blameless, upright, fearing God, and turning away from evil. Blameless in his actions, and blessed in all he had. His life, however, was not just based on a moment of holiness, but Scripture […]
(REFLECTIONS ON Malachi 4:1-6) In the end, when judgment comes to creation from the Creator, the coming day will reveal the righteousness of the Lord. For the arrogant and the evildoer, that day will be like a burning furnace. It isn’t only the evildoer that will be chaff, so let us not think that our faith […]
(REFLECTIONS ON Malachi 3:1-18) 1 “Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,” says the Lord of hosts. John the Baptist came […]