Job 4 & 5 **When Job's friends speak, I have a hard time sifting out the truth from their limited understanding. I keep reminding myself that they didn't know the whole story, that they were not aware of God's purpose in all of Job's suffering. I try to imagine myself in their shoes. The following … Continue reading What Friends Say – Part 2
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What Friends Say – Part 1
Job 4 & 5 Oh, Eliphaz...so pious! You speak from your place of health and comfort into the misery and sorrow of your dear friend. Could you not sit silently just a few more days? "If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?"Job 4:2 Eliphaz summarizes … Continue reading What Friends Say – Part 1
A Simple Bible Study Method
One Chapter a Day Each New Year, Christians throughout the world start new Bible reading plans. It's a wonderful opportunity to start fresh in God's Word. Some make the commitment to read through the Bible in a year. Some choose to follow a longer plan, reading one book of the Bible for a whole month, … Continue reading A Simple Bible Study Method
I Wish I Was Never Born
Job 3 Seven days of silence, sitting in the dust with his three friends. No words. Just being together in Job's time of grief and suffering. Did Job's wife make food for them, some bread or meat? Did it rain? What about bathroom breaks, a place to sleep, bugs, heat, cold? So many questions. Maybe … Continue reading I Wish I Was Never Born
Sometimes, There Are No Words.
Job 2 "Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD..."Job 2:1 Again. A repeat of something that happened previously. An echo. Here we are...again. Here we go...again. Satan steps into the presence of the LORD, and God points to Job, His faithful servant, one of a … Continue reading Sometimes, There Are No Words.
Worship In The Dust
New Year, New Morning Job 1 "O dear Friend, when your grief presses you to the very dust, worship there!"C. H. Spurgeon We came from dust. Our bodies will die and decay and return to dust. Once or twice a week, a good housekeeper runs a soft cloth over her furniture to remove the thin … Continue reading Worship In The Dust
Christina Grubb 