- For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God’s eyes.’ But oh, that God would speak and open his lips to you, and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves. Job 11:4-6 – While this word for Job from his friend didn’t apply well to Job’s situation, it does for the rest of mankind. When we think of the hardships we go through in life, we must remember that if it wasn’t for Jesus we’d have much worse struggles coming our way. When we think of what our guilt and sin deserves it’s death and eternity away from a perfect God. That’s the end we deserve, but due to what Jesus did we too are exacted less than our guilt deserves. Rather than eternal life away from God it’s eternal life with God. Praise Jesus we don’t get from God what our guilt deserves. Praise Jesus for His amazing grace! I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1463
- You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away. Job 11:16 – Job is in the worst pain he has ever experienced in his life after losing so much of what he loved and after having his body so deeply afflicted. The misery is real and agonizing for Job, it was all-consuming to his mind to the point that he wished he had never been born. Now his “friend” tells him that God has the power to change all this and it will cause him to forget all this current misery. While again not applying to Job’s situation, the message from Zophar has some scriptural truth for us today. Our God is able to take us from our deepest of hurts to a place where we look back on those hurts as not a time of God’s absence, but of God’s provision. For all of us, there has been seasons in our past that were really, really hard. They broke us, they were debilitating times, and they were seasons we felt the lowest in. Yet now through God’s help, we are beyond those seasons. We aren’t in that brokenness like we were, and we aren’t at that low spot any longer. Instead of seeing that past season as a time of absence and lack of care from the Lord, we see how God provided and got us through to where we are today. Know then today, if you are in a season of hard, God has the power to take this misery you are feeling and wash it away. He can provide, He can rescue, and He loves. He can take you to a place beyond this hard time where you look back on this season not as a time only of hurt, but as a time where God helped when you needed His help. Lean on your Savior and let God show you His power in your story. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2636
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