- What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. Job 13:2 – Job isn’t holding back here when he speaks to his friends, but his words also aren’t unwarranted. His friends choose to speak before they fully understood what was happening and even before they understood where Job’s head was at in all this. Let’s be open to speaking into the lives of others, especially when they are going to trials. Let’s though be willing to spend the time necessary to gather all the details we can before laying out the to-do list for them on how to get out of the struggle. Be willing to listen, be willing to drop your preconceived ideas of why they are in the mess they are in, then speak the truth of scripture over them rather than just your own wisdom only. Not only will this help them feel heard but you can actually be a true help to them in their time of need. For we can say a lot of words to someone in need, but if it’s not what they need, we’ve wasted our breath. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1465
- Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face. Job 13:15 – This is a powerful verse spoken from the mouth of Job. Though he was innocent of any severe type of sin to provoke such action from the Lord, though he felt the Lord was coming down on him too hard, though he was receiving silence back from the Lord after all his cries…Job still voiced his hope in God. Though the Lord was crushing him and he had no idea why, Job continued to place his faith in the Lord. While voiced, we still see the pain and grief in words of Job here. Yes, his hope was in God, but the confusion and pain were also still present. Are you today in a situation much like Job, or know someone who is? Where pain is severe, but a wrong done to deserve such pain isn’t known. Where it feels like the Lord is coming down too hard and there is seemingly no response back to our cries of confusion? Here is where our faith in the Lord can take a firmer grounding. “God, I don’t know why this pain is here, but I will choose to still hope in you. I don’t understand and I don’t see, but my faith remains in you and I trust you.” Hard words to say in the pain, but these are the words that will carry you through the pain. Will the Lord remain the place of your hope even in seasons like Job’s? I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2638
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