- Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless? Job 22:3 – Yes, of course it’s a pleasure to God when we begin to walk in His ways, but that’s not exactly what this passage is asking. The question asked is do we contribute to God’s level of happiness and goodness by our goodness. Do we add to God’s goodness by our following of His ways and when we don’t we diminish His goodness in someway? That answer is a hard no. Our actions, whether good or bad, don’t change God in who He is and His amount of goodness. What our faithful actions do is please Him though. It shows Him we trust Him and believe He is the right one to follow in life. Our unfaithful actions tell Him the opposite. So live today knowing God is unchanging. Whether you are good or bad won’t change the person of God, it does though for God define the type of relationship you want with Him. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1474
- Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. Job 22:21-22 – The one who is speaking now is Eliphaz, and while starting off his talk in cruelty and speaking falsehoods about Job, he ends his talk with a true call for repentance from Job. Job needed to agree with God about his sin, and if he would do that, he would find the peace he was looking for with the Lord. While once again this advice didn’t apply to Job’s unique situation, it is a true call for us today. We are to receive the words from the Lord and take them deeply into our lives. We are to agree with the Lord that we have sin in our life and that we need to find His forgiveness, and when we do, we’ll find peace with God. As I read this passage and write this devotion today, my mind goes to what will be happening in a few couple hours here at our church. I’ll be helping with a funeral for a man in our church that found peace with the Lord. He listened to the words of the Lord, agreed with the Lord, and found peace with the Lord. Today my prayer is that you too will find peace with God. Know that peace will only come through the salvation of our souls by Jesus Christ. Listen to the words of scripture, agree with the Lord about your sin, and seek the forgiveness that only God can give. Peace with God is available to you today. Don’t wait, for tomorrow is not guaranteed. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2647
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