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Tag: Job

  • Job oversimplified

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    We speak of Job in glowing terms and say that he never sinned by turning his back on God when he faced his trials. The truth is that Job questioned God and lamented his trials. He wished he had never been born. The real lesson of the story of Job is that despite his mortal…

  • Take the widow’s ox for a pledge

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    I believe this phrase, “take the widow’s ox for a pledge” means taking from someone on the margins the very thing they need for survival—something that might be reasonable to take from those in a solid position but unreasonable from those who are barely holding on. How often do we do that?

  • Job’s choice

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    Job recounts how he has been forsaken by God in order to lend power to his testimony. In essence, “He has given me every reason to reject Him and yet I place my trust in Him still.” How often do we act like the friends of Job and attribute wickedness when we should simply offer…

  • Did Job overestimate himself?

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    I wonder if job was patient through his early applications partly because his faith was such that he thought it couldn’t be shaken. When he was afflicted with boils to the point that he wanted to die he started to waver in his patience. I know the feeling. I was afflicted by the pressures is…

  • Purify the sons of Levi

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    I wonder about the Lord purifying the sons of Levi. Part of me thinks He has begun that process and another part feels like that is something he will do openly after he comes. As I think about it, and considering what I know of devout modern Jews, I believe the process has started but…

  • He shall rise the third day

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    I wonder if there is any specific project more repeated than the fact that Christ would be killed and ride again on the third day after His death. That says something about how central that act was to the plan of salvation and how uniquely it identified Christ.

  • One who redeems

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    Christ is quite literally the one who paid our impossible debt.

  • Job

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    Some have questioned if job was a real person or just a story. If he was just a story he would still be an example of a priesthood man but I think he was a real person as he is spoken of in Ezekiel grouped with Daniel and Noah. I remember when I first read…

  • 13 November 2011

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    Job 40 – 42 The Lord challenged Job to make him think again about what he had said. This is where Job chooses to be humble and repent of his proud declarations of his own righteousness. Because he chose to humble himself the Lord accepted him and blessed him again with more wealth than he…

  • 12 November 2011

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    Job 38 – 39 I think part of the reason the Lord illustrates with so many undomesticated animals was to show that while the wild animals are free they are less than those who have been broken and trained to have some understanding.