Truth For The Heart
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 15: Thursday And Job again took up his discourse and said, “Oh that I were as in months gone by, As in the days when God watched over me; When His lamp shone over my head, And by His light I walked through darkness…” Job 29:1–3 Thursday’s Bible […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 15: Wednesday “My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011–2021* ◊ Week 14: Thursday Then Job continued his discourse and said, “As God lives, who has taken away my right, And the Almighty, who has embittered my soul, For as long as life is in me, And the breath of God is in my nostrils, My lips certainly will not […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 13: Thursday Then Job responded, “What a help you are to the weak! How you have saved the arm without strength! What counsel you have given to one without wisdom! What helpful insight you have abundantly provided! To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit was expressed […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 12: Thursday Then Job replied, “Even today my complaint is rebellion; His hand is heavy despite my groaning. Oh that I knew where I might find Him, That I might come to His seat! I would present my case before Him And fill my mouth with arguments. I […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 11: Thursday “Then Job answered, Listen carefully to my speech, And let this be your way of consolation. Bear with me that I may speak; Then after I have spoken, you may mock.” Job 21:1–3 Thursday’s Bible reading is Job 21–22. Job has endured hearing Bildad (chapter 18) […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 10: Thursday “My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me.” Job 19:14 Today’s Bible reading of Job 19–20, begins with Job’s reply to Bildad. Remember, in Job 18, Bildad lectured Job on the “doom of the wicked,”1 a topic with no application or relevance to […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 9: Thursday “My days are past, my plans are torn apart, Even the wishes of my heart.” Job 17:11 In today’s Bible reading of Job 17–18, Job’s very first words in chapter 17 reflect a man who is listless and numb in his despondency—he realizes there is no […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 8: Thursday “My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God.” Job 16:20 Today’s Bible reading is Job 15–16. These chapters begin the second round of replies and rejoinders between Job and his three “comforters.” Eliphaz leads off in Job 15, with these words that set the […]
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Kindling for Candles 