- If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust. Job 34:14-15 – Our thoughts may have not gone too deep today on God’s Spirit and breath in the world, but what we see here is that if removed from our world nothing could remain. It’s too easy to navigate through our day not thinking much of how integral God is to each and every part. Yet stop for a moment and think about what would happen if God did what this passage suggests. What would our life look like if God gathered to Himself all the things He brings to the world? All life, all joy, all peace, and goodness, all hope. Nothing could remain if He did that. Let’s take a moment then today to be thankful that God isn’t gathering His Spirit and breath from us today. Instead He chooses to continue to breathe life into us and fill us with His Spirit. We truly do have a loving God. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1486
- Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong. Job 34:10 – Ehilu, still in his long-winded speech, now seeks to teach/remind Job an everlasting truth about God. That God does no wrong. If God does no wrong, then all this suffering can’t be His fault, so the only other person in the equation would be Job, so it must be His wickedness that caused all this. Once again, Job’s unique situation is not being considered here, and as a result he is being falsely condemned of sin that he did not commit. This truth though about God is one we can embrace and take to heart during all seasons in life. Our God does no wrong, nor is He wicked in anyway. While that is a simple message to read today, sometimes it can be a hard one to accept. When we see the horrors in our world or the hurt in our lives, we can begin to question this truth about God. Yet what if we held fast to this truth about God, and allowed it to open our eyes to other factors at play in why such wickedness is present? Maybe we would see a sin in our story that is causing such hurt, maybe we’d see the bigger picture God is working for, maybe we’d see the hand of the enemy we were blinded to. If scripture says something is true, we can bank on it being true, even if life seems to speak a different message. Allow then that truth of scripture, whatever it may be, to become a lens you see the world through. As you look through such a lens, we will see over and over how true the messages of scripture are. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2659
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