Truth For The Heart
Read 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 12: Wednesday “I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul will make its boast in the LORD; The humble will hear it and rejoice. O magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt His name together. 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 11: Wednesday “Blessed be the LORD, For He has made marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged city.” Psalm 31:21 Wednesday’s Bible reading of Psalms 30–32, speaks of God as our shelter and safety and of the blessings of being forgiven by Him and of His lovingkindness. […]
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 […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 7: Thursday “Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.” Job 13:12 In today’s Bible reading of Job 13–14, Job finishes his rejoinder to Zophar and his other friends. Zopar was the last of the three men to speak to Job, and as […]
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Kindling for Candles 