11 - All things bright and beautiful the Lord God made them all!

Kathleen’s thoughts day eleven

Job 37-42

God speaks and answers Job. In these chapters it shows one how insignificant we are and how little we know about the creation of life here on earth. The human race think they know it all and how it all works but the wonders of the Almighty are far above and beyond anyone’s comprehension. His mighty torrential rains, serve as His signature to all mankind, so that all men may know His work. God does not look favourably on any who are wise in heart. Our wisdom in all the happenings is zero for God asks “Who puts wisdom in the heart or give the mind understanding? When Job humbles himself before God his words are “I am so insignificant. How can I answer you?” So Job here realizes his strength in life. We are insignificant, we take things for granted and we do not have control only the Almighty has the control. God says in Job 41: 11 Everything under heaven belongs to Me.

I love the way Job is blessed in the end for his faithfulness and his life given back to him with blessings pressed down till overflowing.

I found interesting today about an Ostrich. Being on game farms and knowing about their eggs they lay and here in Job 39: 13-18 God tells the reason why they abandon their eggs in verse 17 For God has deprived her of wisdom and he has not endowed her with understanding.

HORSES

Then in verses 24-25 He charges ahead with trembling rage; he cannot stand still at the trumpet’s sound…When the trumpet blasts, he snorts defiantly. God has thought of every little detail here with horses in what it does and when we watch these beautiful strong creatures we just take it for granted that they do these things but God’s plan is there for each creature great or small.

We at the end of the book of Job and it’s been quite a journey of the trials and tribulations this precious man Job went through and it’s been a valuable lesson on faith and commitment to our Lord and King we serve.

Blessings to those who read this blog as we journey further into God’s word.

Kathleen.

11 - Job restored

Job restored to prosperity by Laurent de la Hyre

Job 42:10

After Job had prayed for his friends the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his previous possessions.

 Job 42:16-17

Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. Then Job died, old and full of days.

 Chareen's Thoughts

About the Lord

• Job 37:5 God thunders marvelously with His voice
• Job 37:5 ... He does great things that we cannot comprehend. Isaiah 55:8 'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways.' This is the LORD'S declaration.I have really wrestled with wanting to understand God.  To know the why behind the happenings in my world, my struggles, my issues.  My mind knows these verses so well but my heart continues to strive to understand. This truth needs to penetrate to my heart and spirit.  I think this is key to me gaining a heart at peace.
• Job 37:6-7 ...His mighty torrential rains, serve as His signature to all mankind, so that all men may know His work. This is an interesting way to look at torrential rainfall.
• Job 37:10 Ice is formed by the breath of God, ...

Job 41 is an interesting description of Leviathan. Can you imagine walking the earth with this beautiful creature ?

Job 38 : 4 - 41 God Himself speaks of the things He does / did that we just accept as part of the world around us without giving half a thought as to who / what makes it happen.

At times reading Job felt like a chore but I am pleased that I took the time to think about it and read it slowly.  I saw things I had never noticed before.  Some days I dreaded reading more Job and interesting those are the days that I learned and grew the most.

Looking forward to tomorrow:  God Calls Abram !

Blessings my friends
Chareen

What others are saying about the book of Job:

• SparkNotes: Bible The Old Testement Job.
• The Biblical Book of Job – Is It Old or Real Old?
• Lessons from the book of Job from ShareFaith
• Crusade for World Revival  (CWR) on the book of Job (publisher of Cover to Cover)

10 - Proverbs 3:7 Be not wise in your own eyes; reverently fear the Lord and turn away from evil.

Kathleen’s thoughts 10th January

Job 31-36

The covenant Job made with his eyes intrigued me today. Lust is a huge problem in our society especially the way they dress. Woman walk into a mall half naked with everything exposed for every husband and son to lust after them. There are men struggling with porn and then you see this in the mall and it causes them to fall into sin. Matthew 5:28 But I say to you that everyone who so much as looks at a woman with evil desire for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. So here you find God telling us in the Old and the New Testament. We need to have respect for our bodies as it is the temple for the Holy Spirit. "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your body," (1 Cor. 6:19-20).

I’m getting rather side tracked here but when I continue to read on with Job we know he was a righteous man but it’s all I, me and how good I am and I don’t sin. But we all sin and fall short of the glory of God. So Elihu who is younger than Job comes and reproves Job and tells him because of his age does not mean he has not wisdom. Job 32:7-8 I thought that age should speak and maturity should teach wisdom…But it is a spirit in man and the breath of the Almighty that give him understanding. Food for thought

For God speaks time and again but a person may not notice it. In a dream, a vision in the night when deep sleep falls on people as the slumber on their beds, He uncovers their ears at that time and terrifies them with warning Job 33: 14-16 The Bible teaches that God relayed His messages through the power of the Holy Spirit, to His chosen servants by visions and dreams. These messages were also given to the apostles and prophets (Amos 3:7, Eph. 3:5).

Job 34:21 For His eyes watch over a man’s ways, and He observes all his steps.

Proverbs 3:6 In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.

God will guide you and make straight your paths

Job 35: 3 For you ask, “what does it profit You, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?” Mark 8:36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life

There is also blessings and curses here. Job 36:11-12

If they serve Him obediently, they will end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness…But if they do not obey, they will cross the river of death and die without knowledge.

God tells us in Deut. 30:19 There is blessings and curses life or death choose life that it will go well with your descendants.

That sums it up in one package. What do you choose today?

Blessings

Kathleen

10 - Framework for Righteous Living

Chareen's Thoughts

Job 31 Here Job was speaking about himself and his choices.  He speaks about the secret depths of his heart. I notice that the things we are encouraged to commit to at church in our walk with the Lord are the very things that Job made personal commitments to. As I read I also noticed that he framed his life around the Ten Commandments.

Jobs Framework for Righteous living.

• Job 31 : 1 A commitment to not look at another woman Exodus 20:14 (Ten Commandments) Matthew 5:28 Jesus says: But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. As you read further on you Job elaborates upon this issue.
• Job 31:5 committed to honesty Exodus 20:16 Though shalt not bear false witness
• Job 31:15 He points out that God made everyone including the servants and that in itself is a reason to treat those working for you with respect. He listened to those in his service and did them justly.
• Job 31:16 - 21 Job is a man who cared not only in word but in action for the widow, orphan and poor. Jesus admonishes us in the New Testament to do these very things.  What is faith if there is no action - it's dead faith.
• Job31:24-28 He speaks about idolatry and the root of it been .... denying God above. Exodus 20:3-6 (1st Commandment)
• Job 31:30 I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse.  Wow imagine being able to say I have not allowed my mouth to sin.  I struggle so much with my mouth it gets in the way so often.... James 3:1-11. James word on the tongue is so encouraging.
• Job 31:32 No stranger had to spend the night on the street, for I opened my door to the traveler.  Hebrews 13:2 We are encouraged to look after strangers. This is not an easy thing to do.

About God ...

• Job 33:14 For God speaks time and again, but a person may not notice it. I have been guilty of this so often. I wonder where I would be in my journey of knowing Him if only I had taken notice and acted upon His voice.
• Job 34:10 ... It is impossible for God to do wrong, and for the Almighty to act unjustly.
• Job 34:11 Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
• Job 34:19 God is not partial to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor; for they are all the work of His hands. Sometimes when I look around me and see the wicked prosper or friends at church being blessed with what I desire then I have thrown childish tantrums and felt as though the Lord favours some more than others. I need to remember this verse that He has no favourites.
• Job 34:21 For His eyes watch over a man's ways and He observes all his steps.
• Job 36:5 Yes, God is mighty, but He despises no one; it is so good to know that He despises no one.  This is often hard to remember when I look at those who are openly walking in sin. I am blessed to know that God does not have a low opinion of anyone.
• Job 36:26 Look, God is exalted beyond our knowledge; the number of His years cannot be counted Over the years I have wondered how old God is and my children have all asked me how old He is.  Never noticed this verse before ! Think about it the number of His years cannot be counted ! How great is Our God.

Matthew 5:11

"Blessed are you when they insult you 

and persecute you and 

falsely say every kind of evil against you 

because of Me."

Reading Job today has given me a deeper understanding of this verse in Matthew.  I wonder how many times we have judged a fellow Christian who in truth was not in sin but being tested as Job was tested ?

Blessings

Chareen

9 - Job's integrity prevails

Kathleen's thoughts

Interesting read today from Job 24 -30 I was beginning to get quite exhausted from my read with Job until I opened the word today with heaps of encouragement and an insight to this man’s integrity. He sure was a man of honour. It also showed me that people have short memories when you do good and when destruction hits the home how people turn on you. When you need encouragement when you rock bottom in life these so called friends disappear and then go behind your back and condemn

It has shown me that words fitly spoken to someone who is struggling with life is it’s worth and works wonders. Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. It heals the broken hearted and bounds up their wounds.

It has also showed me that respect for another person is very important Job 29: 7-11. As a young person my parents were very strict and taught me to have manners and respect for my seniors. At school when a teacher or head walked into the classroom we all stood up and greeted them. Here you see in Job that the people respected him and stood up when he approached even the elderly. God wants us to respect others and speak words that are fitly.We need to ask ourselves on a daily basis “Do we?”

Job talks of wisdom… Job 28: 28 He said to man kind, “Look! The fear of the Lord- that is wisdom, and to turn from evil is understanding.”

I love Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. One sees this saying in Job 29:3 When His lamp shone above my head, and I walked through darkenss by His light! This is proof that God is light even Job says it here we need to keep our life in the lightness of His love for His grace is new every morning and His faithfulness. Without this light we will have darkness and darkness is death in all ways.

In closing I have learnt about respect, wisdom, encouragement and God’s light and the Almighty will be your gold and your finest silver and the light will shine on your ways.

Blessings

Kathleen

9 - Eternal perspective ??

Chareen's Thoughts: 

Today I am reading Job 24 - Job 30

Job 26:12 ... and by His understanding He crushed Rahab. This is the second time Rahab is mentioned in Job.  When I think of Rahab I think of the harlot who concealed the Jews in Joshua 2.  I wonder what they are talking about and why is she crushed ?  I see that the KJV translates the verse like this: ... and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud. Ah that makes sense.  Job is acknowledging the power of God even though he does not understand God's dealing with the wicked.

I love how Job describes that wisdom can not be found in the land of the living Job 28:13 this is so true. True wisdom is found in the knowledge of the Father and His way.  It is a gift from His hand. Job 28:23 But God understands the way to wisdom, and He knows its location. Job 28:27 He considered wisdom and evaluated it; He established it and examined it. Job 28:28 He said to mankind, "Look! The fear of the Lord- that is wisdom, and to turn from evil is understanding." Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. ...

Job 29 is eye opening of Jobs life before his oppression by Satan.  You begin to perceive a picture of the esteem he was held in. You can see he is a righteous man he gives the Lord the honour for all he had and did.

Job 30 amazes me how quickly people forget.  When I think about this it is just as true today as it was 6 500 years ago. We have had many great christian men and woman who have fallen and all they are remembered for are their disgrace not the good they did before.  I have been reminded about how the scriptures admonish us to love in the list 10 Ways to Love that I recently discovered. True love keeps no record of wrong. As I read this chapter I was convicted in my heart that I am like those who so quickly forgot about all the good that Job did. I am too quick to point a finger at where people are now but I do not know their hearts. Only the almighty knows.  Who am I to lay judgement ?

As I read Job I realise that without the insight of Satan being before God and asking to bring calamity I would be horrified by what has happened to this upright man.  I would be angry, confused and frustrated at God.
But I have a hope. Romans 8:28 We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose. As I read these words in Romans I realise that my God is far more sovereign than I have let Him be.  He has a divine purpose and it is good because He is good.

I have been guilty of sprouting this verse off flippantly to those in distress.  As I have been reading Job today I have slowly become aware just how deeply Job was hurting.  What had he done ?  He was a righteous man, he actively sought to do good all the days of his life. He loved the Lord deeply and yet here he was despised and rejected even though every one knew how good he was.  These same people who now spat on him used to come to him for advice and support.  These very people now rejected and shunned him.

  My heart grieves for those I have hurt with passing comments.

Today I have learned that I need to be careful of how I judge the circumstances of people because I do not have the benefit of an Eternal Perspective. I can not see as God sees.   Their circumstances are not a reflection of their righteousness. I need to support and encourage and build up people in my words, actions and attitudes.

Blessings
Chareen

8 - The Almighty will be your gold and your finest silver.

Kathleen's thoughts

Decisions, decisions, decisions! Job here does not seem to find his feet and his dear friend Eliphaz tells Job to come to terms with God and be at peace and this way God will come to you. Job was extremely bitter and refuses to listen to reason and constantly putting obstacles in the way. Here I find that Job was leaning on his own understanding and we are told in the book of Proverbs not to lean on our own understanding.

God is telling us here in Job 22: 21-30 to listen to him. Receive instructions and obey them and keep them dear to your heart. We cannot do things on our own we will fall into destruction God says if you don’t listen my people will perish from lack of knowledge. God leads us He is our lamp to our feet and a light to our path… Job 22:25 The Almighty will be your gold and your finest silver. It reminds me of that scripture from Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver if refined and will test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will hear and answer them. I will say, it is My people; and they will say, THE LORD IS MY GOD.

Blessings

Kathleen

8 - Frustration over the prosperiety of the wicked

Chareen's Thoughts: 

I must confess I have been feeling a little frustrated with reading Job. All these speeches do my head in. I have been blessed with a special friend who is Jewish. I decided to email her and her husband for some insights on how they study Job and this is what she has to say:

Job can be tough if you are trying to read it through.

We have our pre-teens study Job-it can be overwhelming and boring if you are not careful.
Take a piece of paper-there are only 5 characters in the whole book.
The first is Job-write that on one page of paper
Then turn the paper over and divide the paper into thirds-and write the names of each of his "friends" Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. Then get another piece of paper and write The L-rd's Reaction on the top of it Understand the Jews like to complain if things don't go their way-it's just what they do as a part of how we are taught to pray-so life has been good for Job-all of a sudden he is sitting Shiva for his whole family (mourning) combined with complaining to the L-rd-only he is complaining to his friends as he complains to the L-rd
If you are wanting an overview of the book, no reason to list all of Job's ranting and ravings-they are what you would expect from an angry man in mourning and they can be studied more in depth on another study or time
Rather you are looking for patterns-begin reading, first there is the intro, then bad things happen, then Job rants and raves for the first time
I believe Eiphaz the Teranite is the first to come along in around chapter 4-read the whole chapter 4 & 5 and pick 3 words or statements about what he says (a summary of advice or behaviour)-
I would pick Who is going to answer you? You need to lay your case before G-d, Do not reject G-d's discipline
Job replies-I personally would list all of the friends responses first so as to not get bogged down but if you feel the need to read straight through then turn your paper over and list the next 3 rantings of Job that stick out-I would skip to chapter 8 and list the 3 responses the Bildad the Shuhite give under his name
I would continue this way through the whole book and then (the next week at Hebrew school for us) we have them read the book straight through looking for what Job said and how it sparked the response from his "friends"

Today's readings are from Job 19 - Job 23

• I must confess along with Job that it frustrates me to see wicked people prosper and live in 'peace'! I wonder why it is that way ?
• Job 21:22-26 Can anyone teach God knowledge, since He judges the exalted ones ? One person dies in excellent health, completely secure and at ease. His body is well-fed, and his bones are full of marrow. Yet another person dies with a bitter soul, having never tasted prosperity. But they both lie in the dust, and worms cover them. Reading this made me realise that our view of the world around us has not changed in 7 000 years. People back then struggled with the same things we do, they felt as passionate and as frustrated as we do over the prosperity of the wicked!

The verse we were left with for Thought and Contemplation is 1 Peter 3:16 "... keeping your conscience clear, so that when you are accused, those who denounce your Christian life will be put to shame." I found this encouraging. I can see now how Job's 'friends' are put to shame and how because Job's conscience is clear that his redemption by God was complete.

Blessings my friends
Chareen

7 - Job spirit is broken.

^{Kathleen’s thoughts}

It’s been a hot day today, just struggling with the heat and trying to make sense of what is going on around one. Then you sit down and read Job and his struggles of trying to keep alive and crying out in pain then having his friends give advice and in return his Job with his wisdom tells them off.

Taking advice from someone while you are struggling with your own issues is an issue and you can see this with Job and his friends both sides reproving one another. It sounds like daily living today. We always poking our nose into things where it’s not really needed and the end result is always heartache. But at the end of the day God is in control here waiting patiently for Job to do the right thing.

Job tells us not to put our trust into worthless things for in return it will prove worthless,

I love this scripture in Job 4:6 Isn’t your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope? It’s very sad that Job accusers his friends as miserable comforters Job 16:2 we all need to take heed in this that we need to stop and listen to one in need and be a comforter and pray for the blessing they need. Life is a struggle and each one of us the road we walk can be very tiresome and we need to stop and listen to God’s voice and obey Him for there is no greater comforter than the Almighty.

Blessings

Kathleen.

7 - Are your words empty ?

Chareen's Thoughts:

As I read through Job I am reminded how we limit God and how much we forget that He is in control. Job knew and understood this intimately: Since man's days are determined and the number of his months depends on You, an since You have set limits he cannot pass, Job 14:5


I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation from my lips would bring relief. Job 16:5 As I read this scripture I was challenged by a man in total grief and despair about the way in which I support or encourage those in my sphere of influence. Am I there for my friends? Do I encourage ? Do I bring relief with my words ?  Do I hear their hearts or do I judge a situation before I fully understand ? Am I a balm and a comfort or am I in Job's words: ...You are all miserable comforters. Is there no end to your empty words ? Job 16:3 Are my words empty ? Filled with despair ? or are they words that comfort and bring life. Yes I have much to meditate on today.

This scripture jumped at me: I wish that someone might arbitrate between a man and God Job 16:21 I have been thinking about Jobs cry to the Lord and I realise that God answered Job's question/cry to Him. In Hebrews 4:14 it says we have Jesus: Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven,[a] Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. The role of the High Priest is to mediate for us with God. In fact it says a similar thing in Hebrews 6:20 and Hebrews 3:1.

Blessings
Chareen

6 - More on Job

Chareen's Thoughts:

I can not imagine the anguish and despair that Job felt as he sat there. You can see his complete sense of hopelessness and despair.

I have often thought of the question that Job asked in Job 7:17 What is man, that You think so highly of him and pay so much attention to him ?

I discovered more about God:

• God is wise (Job 9:4)
• He is all powerful (Job 9:4)
• He preforms great and unsearchable things (Job 9:10)
• His care guards life (Job 10:12)
• He gives life. (Job 10:12)
• The depth of God is higher than the heavens (Job 11:7-8)
• His depth is longer than the earth and wider than the sea (Job 11:9)
• Wisdom and strength belong to God (Job 12:13)
• Counsel and understanding are His (Job 12:13)
• True wisdom and power belong to Him (Job 12:16)
• He is the one who reveals mysteries (Job 12:22)

 Blessings
Chareen

6 - Job's anguish

Kathleen's thoughts

I can relate to these chapters in the Bible with my own life. When the trials become hard and you sick one is incline to be rather snappy and frustrated with life. With what Job is going through at the moment one can see in these chapters it must have been quite devastating and his nerves very fragile especially enduring the pain of having boils all over his body and oozing let alone the fever he had and in between all this he was in mourning for his family. So one can fully understand here his predicament that he is in. His friends were trying to comfort him with words of wisdom and in his state he could not take it on board. This is all very human but we do serve an awesome God. Job 12: 10 The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind. God was looking after Job by sending him his friends to comfort him. Imagine sitting for 7 days and 7 nights and not saying a word, just them being there must have been a huge comfort. Prov. 18:24 A man with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

Verses I found interesting are...

Job 8: 17-18 his roots are intertwined around a pile of rocks. He looks for a home among the stones….If he is uprooted from his place, it will deny knowing him, saying, “I never saw you.”

I thought of this verse below when I read the above

Matthew 7:23 And then I will say to them, openly, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who act wickedly. So everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts upon them will be like a sensible man who built his house upon the rock.

Job 9: 8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea. I thought of this verse…Mark 6:48 And having seen that they were troubled and tormented in rowing, for the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea.

Job 9:30 If I wash myself with snow... I thought of Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord, Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool.

Job 9: 34 Let him take His rod away from me so His terror will no longer frighten me. Psalm 23:4 Your rod (to protect) and Your staff (to guide) they comfort me.

One of my many happy memories of Sunday school was the singing of the children hymns and one of them was Wide, wide as the ocean and when I read Job 11: 7-9 Can you fathom the depths of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?...They are higher than the heavens – what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol – what can you know? Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea. It brought back many memories of singing.

In closing today's reading we must remember this. The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind. Job 12:10

Blessings

Kathleen

5 - Job a man of Integrity

Kathleen’s thoughts

I’m struggling today to write on this reading as I can’t imagine going through what Job went through. The loss of one’s family and then everything he owned. What a struggle he must have endured that pain must have been over powering! Yet he still praised the Lord. He was a man of integrity who feared God and turned away from evil.

Through all this sadness of Job his love for God never wavered.

Job 7 Verse 19 is of interest. God said He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in SEVEN… God created the earth and everything in it in 6 days and on the 7^th day He rested There is a connection here for Job, we find that He will rescue him from 6 calamities and on the 7^th He will bring rest upon him and no evil will touch him. Job’s struggle when he became ill and his friends came to him and sat with him for 7 days and 7 nights in silence, it’s here that Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born.

God’s love and affection for us is the wonders of wonders especially here in Job 5:9 He does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

Blessings

Kathleen.

5 - A man of perfect Integrity and the search for loyal friends

Chareen's Thoughts: 

Integrity an interesting word. It is defined as: The entire, unimpaired state of any thing, particularly of the mind; moral soundness or purity; incorruptness; uprightness; honesty. Integrity comprehends the whole moral character, but has a special reference to uprightness, Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive;   Imagine being known as having perfect integrity ?  This is the description of Job he was complete; not defective and of unimpaired character. He was the greatest man among all the people of the east compared to Nimrod who was known as mighty.

Job 1:6 Once again we read about the sons of God coming before God accept this time they are there with Satan. Some versions call them angels and some sons of God.  I find this an interresting statement. Sons of God: plural will need to do some research to understand this better.

Job 1:21 ... The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. Praise the name of the LORD. Wow what a response he praised the Lord.

You can see Job's uprightness that even when he is in the midst of the grief of losing his 10 children and all his wealth he still guided his wife. Job 2:10 he admonished her for her foolish speech and challenged her faith. The bible recognises that he did not sin in what he said.

Job 2 : 12 - 13 Jobs friends arrive and sit in silence with him for 7 days 24 hours around the clock. I wonder what they thought about.  They waited for Job to speak first.  Job was so ill they barely recognised him.

Job 4:3-4 We see that Job has the reputation of a man who strengthened and encouraged those who were weak. He was a teacher.

The character of God.

• Job 5: 8-27 verse 9 Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number
• I was encouraged that I may appeal and present my case to God.(verse 8) 
• I love how God is known for frustrating the schemes of the crafty and bringing an end to evil. (verse 12-14)
• I see that correction from God brings joy. (verse 17) 
• I read how my God strikes but brings healing, He is known as the redeemer from death.  (verse 18)
• I love how He is known for keeping people safe from slander. (verse 21) and even if destruction comes from slander we are instructed not to fear it.
• He protects from the thief (verse 24)

 Instruction to friends

A despairing man should receive loyalty from his friends, even if he abandons the fear of the Almighty. Job 6:14 I am pleased I saw this verse today.  It has spoken to me about being a loyal friend and not a judgmental critical friend. It speaks to me of support. I  have much to think about. As I continued in Chapter 6 I read about Job's appeal to his friends to remember him and who he is as that has not changed. He appeals to them to be his friend and not look for sin and error or point fingers.  He is low he needs encouragement not judgement.  As a friend I need to be encouraging and lifting up my friends.

How do you support and encourage your friends ?  How loyal are you ?

Blessings

Chareen