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Choose Closeness With God
Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Psalm 62:8. I was struck in reading our chapter, Job 33, by the way in which Elihu speaks. I am about to open my mouth; my words are on the tip of my tongue…v. 2. He takes awhile to…
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True Wisdom
You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so…
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Movement With God Toward Joy
If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. John 14:23. The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over…
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God Is Our Help Always
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Let your good spirit lead me on a level path. Psalm 143.10 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. Isaiah 58:9. Reading our chapter, Job 30, I can’t help but think how different it…
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Let Our Praise Be For God
Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner? Luke 17:18. I could understand many things in our chapter, Job 29. Job laments what he had that is now lost. He begins so well giving all to God. How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me, when his…
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Where Wisdom Is Found
And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord – that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.” Job 28:28. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known…
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What Is Next?
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6. I had an interesting conversation with two of our grandkids yesterday as we were eating lunch. I don’t even remember how the conversation started but one of…
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Let God In and Be Renewed
Our son and daughter-in-law are flying in today for a family visit and when our daughter recovers from a virus soon, we will all be together after 5 years apart. Needless to say, I didn’t get much sleep last night. I didn’t do my usual Bible chapter reading this morning but I sat in prayer with our…
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Trust God’s Timing
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13. The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. Habakkuk 3:19. We have reached the final words of Job and they stretch over 5 chapters. In…
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The Things That Matter: Trusting God
Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before…
To Take the Hand of God 