Tag: suffering
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Why such suffering?
Job 38:8-11 “Who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be […]
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The heart of Job
Job 13:15 “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.” Death – it’s the worst thing that can be thrown at us. Job knew the Lord in such an intimate and trusting way, that even death – even if it came from God himself, would not shake him. Trust is just another word […]
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Unwise judges
Job 1:8 “And the Lord said to Satan, ‘Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?’” Job 4:1,7-9 “Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said . . . ‘Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut […]
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He told us the truth!
John 17:17 “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.” One of the helps that I’ve used in my prayer life over the years is a prayer calendar that is put out by the organization “The Voice of the Martyrs.” This calendar is filled with suggestions on how we can be praying for our brothers and […]
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While we wait . . .
Psalm 130:5 “I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in His word I hope” Are you good at waiting for things? For example, how often have you heard, or thought, “I just can’t wait for this weather to change.” So often in life we find ourselves in positions of waiting, and more often […]
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When trials come
Psalm 105:16-22 “When He (i.e. God) summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread, He had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave. His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron; until what he had said came to pass, the Word of the Lord tested him. The […]
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What does it all mean?
Psalm 91:3 “For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.” I don’t know about you, but the verse above, and in fact the entire 91st Psalm, is one that I’ve heard repeatedly since Covid-19 has struck. I’ve heard so many Christians turn to this Psalm as the answer […]
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The Gardener
John 15:2 “Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” Jesus spoke often in figures of speech. In the well-known metaphors of John 15 He calls himself the vine, the Father the gardener, and the believers branches. He […]
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The waves
Psalm 42:5-7 “Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? . . . Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.” Job 42:8-11 “Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, […]
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Eternal perspective
Psalm 34:19 “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” If one verse should sound a death knell to the “health and wealth” prosperity gospel, it is the one above from Psalm 34. To hear some TV preachers tell it, if you are a Christian, God wants nothing for […]
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