Job 41-42
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.” (Job 42:1) God is sovereign. Who are we to make demands of God or to think we understand His ways?
And then come the questions….I can’t figure out why the entire book of Job talks about Job’s “three” friends, when there are four who speak. Did God’s anger not also burn at the fourth? Didn’t Elihu make the same assumptions about God as the other three? Maybe it is a culture thing, where he is not mentioned because of his young age?
Also, after a three or four chapter rebuke of Job, what exactly does God mean when He says the friends “…have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.” (Job 42:7b)? I simply cannot decipher what each of them said distinctly enough to parse out what was right and what was wrong about each one. Or is it because Job repented and maybe the friends did not?? I do take note, however, of how Job, after being insulted, accused, and verbally lambasted by his so-called friends for all this time, willingly prays God’s mercy for them.
Matt. 16
Interesting how quickly Simon Peter goes from “Blessed are you”, the rock on which Christ will build His Church, to “Get behind me, Satan”, a stumbling block to God’s purpose. “Peter” means “rock”, and it seems to me that this is a gift, if you will, that God has given Simon – He has made him a rock, with all that entails. And, as with all gifts that God gives each of us, Peter is free to use that gift for God (a solid foundation rock) or against God (a stumbling block).
In trading, one of the big, and obvious, things is that you want to be on the right side of the Market – don’t fight it. God is like the Market – you really want to be working with God and not fighting Him. You want to be involved in what He is doing, and not off trying to work your own plan and do your own thing. How do you know what direction to go? I think that you have to be in constant connection with God so that you will both hear and understand His voice, and be in the right spirit to accept and go along with it. Lots of other stuff here, of course, but this is what stuck out to me at this particular moment in time.