The Devotional
Comment:
Without exception most every one of us are fearful of
something and if I might say that the route of that fear is that God might show
up in our personal life and speak. Now I am not looking for candidates who
claim a daily one on one conversation with God or even a periodic visit.
However I am seeking to encourage everyone who reads these daily devotionals to
consider that God does speak to each of us daily; “watch this!” “The heavens declare the glory of God, the
skies proclaim the work of His Hands. “Day
after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.
There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes
out into all the earth, their words to the end of the world”. Psalm 19:1-4 –
God does not need an audible voice to get our attention, yet you and I need to
SEE and HEAR the everyday Words of Creation as God displays His Majesty in love
and mercy to ALL who will (in righteousness by faith) LISTEN and SEE the glory
of God.
Challenge:
Job 42
We are at the last
chapter of this marvelous book, I feel speechless and maybe it is best if I do
not say anything at all.
The responsibility
of counseling the hurting is always present, we are called to comfort one
another (2 Corinthians 1:3-7 and 1 Thessalonians 4:18) also note that one of
the themes of these two epistles of Paul is to comfort one another. Comforting
the hurting is not just the knowledge that we have the responsibility to do
that, but that we have the “know how to do so!” both of these epistles speak to
the church. Thus it is the church that has the responsibility to counsel the suffering.
People who are
called to comfort must be under the authority of the local church, in other
words we should not take the full responsibility upon our self to comfort
someone apart from the teaching ministry of the local church. Para-church
organizations may not have the authority of scripture backing them since most
of these are regulated by state and federal mandates imposed on their ability
to operate. Also if you personally seek to comfort someone and it fails, that
would be a heavy burden to carry into the future.
God restored Job’s
life, He also restored Job’s family and fortune, we should not take this as “prosperity”
but we should note that “faith in God” produces right living. Therefore it is
the very need of every saint of God to exercise his or her faith in God. The
Righteousness of a person is an attribute or result of faith in God of that
person. There are three men recorded in the Old Testament who demonstrates this
Righteousness to God. Noah, Daniel and Job. Each of these men had a mission in
life.
Noah built an ark
while God prepared to destroy the world with a worldwide flood. Daniel the
prophet of God became a high ranking government official in the land of his
enemy, an enemy that sought to destroy Israel. Yet in righteousness Daniel was
loyal to his homeland, Israel. Job was nearly destroyed in every area of life,
not by God but by the devil. Job is listed in Ezekiel 14:12-14 as one of the three
men who were delivered from destruction of Satan’s war with God because of
their righteousness.
If you have come
to faith in Jesus Christ; that is if you believe that Jesus Christ came in the
flesh (1 John 5) who died in the flesh for your personal sin; the sin of the
world (John 1:29-34, 19:28-30) and who has risen physically from the dead (John
20:1-18) and who has ascended back into glory (Acts 1:1-10). Then your faith is
resting in His WORK and righteousness will be the result of your faith in God.
Where do we go
next?
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