by Stuart | 23 May 2022 | Devotionals, Job
James wrote of Job’s “steadfastness” (ESV) or “endurance” (CSB) (5:7). The King James Version famously translates it as “the patience of Job.” If Job was a model of patience, perhaps it was with his friends more than anything else! We have considered the opinions of...
by Stuart | 22 May 2022 | Devotionals, Job
Bildad, we saw previously, had a profoundly simplistic faith. In his theology, God is just and his actions always consistent with justice. If he blesses, it is because we have done right. If he withdraws blessing, or if he sends affliction, it is because we have done...
by Stuart | 19 May 2022 | Devotionals, Job
“It’s not fair!” I’ve long lost count of hope many times I’ve heard those words from my children. I’ve probably said or thought similar things even more often. There is something in the human psyche that desperately wants fairness, even if we know we will never fully...
by Stuart | 18 May 2022 | Devotionals, Job
As we saw in an earlier devotion, God’s people sometimes suffer specifically because they are faithful. This was the case with Job. The suffering he experienced serve to validate his profession of faith. Serious loss of possessions, family, security, and status did...
by Stuart | 17 May 2022 | Devotionals, Job
The central section of Job revolves around a series of speeches between Job and his friends. While they had come to comfort him, we quickly discover that they had completely misdiagnosed the situation and were, therefore, completely unable to help. As Job would later...
by Stuart | 16 May 2022 | Devotionals, Job
William lost his mother when he was six years old and never quite got over her death. Fifty-three years later, when someone sent him a portrait of her, he responded by writing a poem: I heard the bell toll on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,...
