(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 […]
(REFLECTIONS ON Malachi 2:1-17) The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi came after the return from exile to Jerusalem, after the temple had been rebuilt, but with passing time rather than continuing to remain faithful in worship to the Lord in the new restored temple, people, including the priests, started to become complacent. Day […]
(REFLECTIONS ON Malachi 1:1-14) 2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob.” Jacob, that is Israel, was chosen over Esau, not because of human merit or status, but according to God’s sovereign purpose. Despite Esau […]
(REFLECTIONS ON Zechariah 14:1-21) 9 And the Lord will be king over all the earth; in that day the Lord will be the only one, and His name the only one. There are 66 books in the Bible written at different times and by different writers. There are a total of 17 prophetic books in the […]