Deuteronomy 8:4: “Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee. Neither did thy feet swell these forty years.” When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed When you are discouraged thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings named them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord has done. -Johnson Oatman Jr.
Last night I as I went to bed I made my request known unto the Lord. In fact I have been faithfully making this same request for 6 years and have never seen an answer to that prayer. I found myself adding a little footnote to my petition that went something like this: “Well, Lord,
Matthew 10:37: “He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” Exodus 20:12: “Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.”
John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him, shall not perish but have eternal life.” I grew up in a Baptist church where salvation meant that you recited a sinner’s prayer and after repeating these words you became a new person. Now
Job 27:3 “All the while my breath is in me but the Spirit of God is in my nostrils.” Translators have really played around with this verse. No one seems to know for sure whether to render this as the breath of God is in my nostrils or the Spirit of God is in
Job 24:13: “They are those who rebel against the light, they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.” Titus 1:15: “Unto the pure all things are pure but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind and conscience are defiled.” Titus was most
Job 22:29: “When men are cast down thou shalt say, there is lifting up, and he shall save the humble person.” Job 22 is the reply to Job by his friend Eliphaz. It is suggested by many that his name means god of gold. This is likely due to an assumption that the root
Job 13:3: “Surely I would speak to the Almighty and I desire to reason with God.” “He lived by the sewer and by the sewer he died, the coroner didn’t know what to call it so he called it sewer side. He lived by a home and by a home he died, the coroner
Job 12:3: “But I have understanding as well as you, I am not inferior than you; yea who knoweth not such things as these?” “Wise men don’t need advice, fools will not take it.” Benjamin Franklin Reading this verse would suggest that Job is really getting annoyed with his friends. It appears he
Job 1:22: “In all this Job sinned not, nor charge God foolishly.” Whenever I hear a preacher teach on Job and point his finger and say: “In all that Job did not sin, nor blame God.” I could not help but wonder: “What sin would Job commit and how could he not blame God,
