Job 30-31 Wow – Job, throughout his life, has considered every aspect of it and how to live it righteously before God. God, enlarge the part of me that wants to live less for me ...
Day 19 – Job 28-29; Matt 13:1-30Day 19 – Job 28-29; Matt 13:1-30
Job 28-29 “Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.” (Job 28:28) This is a Truth that is repeated in Proverbs and possibly other places in ...
Day 18 – Job 25-27; Matt 12:24-50Day 18 – Job 25-27; Matt 12:24-50
Job 25-27 So many words…and the point of them all is rather lost on me. One thing I do get is that Job’s friends were of no help or encouragement to him at all. I ...
Day 17 – Job 22-24; Matt 12:1-23Day 17 – Job 22-24; Matt 12:1-23
Job 22-24 Well, now Eliphaz is just making stuff up!! He lays out accusations to Job that couldn’t be further from the truth! Note to self: the act of making stuff up to fit your ...
Day 16 – Job 20-21; Matt 11Day 16 – Job 20-21; Matt 11
Job 20-21 I think maybe part of the point of this book of Job is to adjust our idea of what is “fair”. We get hung up on that – “fair”. We want to think ...
Day 15 – Job 17-19; Matt 10:21-42Day 15 – Job 17-19; Matt 10:21-42
Job 17-19 Job’s friends continue to attack him based on what they believe to be true – that Job would not be suffering if he was innocent. But Job, though he insists that God is ...
Day 14 – Job 14-16; Matt 10:1-20Day 14 – Job 14-16; Matt 10:1-20
Job 14-16 Every now and then, I just don’t have much to say. Job is one big series of long, repetitive rants, and today’s reading is no exception – more accusations of Job’s unrighteousness, but ...
Day 13 – Job 11-13; Matt 9:18-38Day 13 – Job 11-13; Matt 9:18-38
Job 11-13 Zophar adds that, not only must Job be guilty of something, but that God must be going easy on him! Job’s friends refuse to consider that Job might indeed be innocent, because they ...
Day 12 – Job 8-10; Matt 9:1-17Day 12 – Job 8-10; Matt 9:1-17
Job 8-10 Bildad is making some hard assumptions about how God works – He will do this and He won’t do that – but who are we to assume we know the ways of God? ...
Day 11 – Job 5-7; Matt 8:18-34Day 11 – Job 5-7; Matt 8:18-34
Job 5-7 I am beginning to think that the purpose for the book of Job is so that we will not speak to our friends who are suffering in the way that Job’s friends spoke ...
Day 10 – Job 3-4; Matt 8:1-17Day 10 – Job 3-4; Matt 8:1-17
Job 3-4 Job is a difficult book…and it’s hard to find application in the bits and pieces of it (rather than the whole). Knowing the end of this story, I will say that one thing ...
Day 9 – Job 1-2; Matt 7Day 9 – Job 1-2; Matt 7
Job 1-2 Evidently, we are moving through the Bible chronologically, because we have jumped to Job (which they believe was written sometime during this period in Genesis). And yeah, wow – in one single hour, ...
Day 8 – Gen 20-22; Matt 6:19-34Day 8 – Gen 20-22; Matt 6:19-34
Gen. 20-22 Sometimes I just have questions! Did Abimelech know who God was? Why did he consider taking another man’s wife a sin? How long had this gone on (how would they know all the ...
Day 7 – Gen 18-19; Matt 6:1-18Day 7 – Gen 18-19; Matt 6:1-18
Gen. 18-19 So much to note here! First, Abraham and Sarah waited an additional 13 years (at least 23 now) before Sarah became pregnant – patience!!! Another thing about God – He loves to wait ...
Day 6 – Gen 16-17; Matt 5:27-48Day 6 – Gen 16-17; Matt 5:27-48
Gen. 16-17 Ten years Abram and Sarai waited for God to fulfill His promise of a son to them. Ten years…and they grew impatient – or perhaps just anxious and confused. Either way, they began ...
Day 5 – Gen 13-15; Matt 5:1-26Day 5 – Gen 13-15; Matt 5:1-26
Gen. 13-15 In Gen 9:25-26, God cursed Canaan (Ham’s descendants) and blessed Shem, giving his descendants rule over Ham’s descendants. In the last part of Gen 15, God makes a covenant with one of Shem’s ...
Day 4 – Gen 10-12; Matt 4Day 4 – Gen 10-12; Matt 4
Genesis 10-12 and Matthew 4 – It seems all I have from today’s reading is a bunch of questions! Among them, did Noah’s sons have children before boarding the Ark (they were almost 100 years ...
Day 3 – Gen 7-9; Matt 3Day 3 – Gen 7-9; Matt 3
Today’s reading: Gen. 7-9 and Matt 3. God’s design is so evident in the story of the flood! All the creatures came onto the Ark by twos – male and female – and they departed ...
Day 2 – Gen 4-6; Matt 2Day 2 – Gen 4-6; Matt 2
Today was Gen. 4-6 and Matt. 2. Again with the trusting obedience! Did Noah even know what rain was, let alone a flood? Makes me think of Colton Dixon’s song, “Build a Boat” – ” ...
DAY 1 – Gen 1-3; Matt 1DAY 1 – Gen 1-3; Matt 1
I read the first 3 chapters of Genesis and Matthew Ch. 1 today (I am using the ESV version). I guess if I have to pin down something impressed upon me from it, it would ...