GREAT IS OUR LORD! And the LORD said to Job: “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.” —Job 40:1-2 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. —Job 41:11 Then Job answered the LORD and said: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known…

MAN’S KNOWLEDGE/UNDERSTANDING PALES COMPARED TO GOD’S Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this. —Job 38:18             The most intelligent people who have ever lived have to answer this question— “Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?” — with a “no” if they are honest.  Our world is vast and as long as we have been here on the planet, there is so much still to learn.  So yes, to those who think they are “know it alls” — how do you answer that question?  Any intellectually honest person would have to answer that question with a “no, I don’t…

MORNING BY MORNING, DAY BY DAY— KNOW THIS! Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul….  Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground! —Psalm 143:8, 10 The Lord GOD has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned. —Isaiah 50:4             To whom else could we…

WISDOM COMES FROM GOD But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.  It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right. —Job 32:8-9             Just because a person is old does not make him wise.  Wisdom is the proper application of knowledge— to apply knowledge effectively.  It is God that gives man understanding and makes a person wise.  Just because a person is aged does not mean he is wise and understanding. “I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been…

TRUST… WAIT Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy? —Job 30:25 O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you! —Psalm 141:1             Job was trying to make sense out of his situation.  The loss of all his animals (business), the loss of his servants, the loss of his children, the loss of his health, the loss of his wife’s support, the loss of his friends’ comfort and encouragement left him to wonder about God’s care, or lack of care, for him.             He pondered the days when he…

MY LIGHT! There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths. —Job 24:13 Upon whom does his light not arise? —Job 25:3 And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’ —Job 28:28 The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid? —Psalm 27:1             There are those who simply rebel against the light of God, the truth of God.  They do not know His ways, nor…

HE TOTALLY KNOWS YOU! O LORD, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. —Psalm 139:1-4  Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! —Psalm 139:23-24             Our Lord God Almighty knows everything about everybody…. Including you and me.  He knows— When I sit…

TRUSTING OUR LORD WHEN IN THE DARKNESS My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness. —Job 16:16             If you have been in mourning before or now, then you can identify with Job to some degree.  Oh, how this man was in deep pain— in massive swelling of sorrow.  His ten children all died at the same time in a storm.  He lost all his animals—- his business, his living.  Some of his servants were killed.  He did not have the support of his wife who said he should “curse God and die.”  His intimate friends accused him of wrong-doing.  His own siblings would not…

CLUELESS LEADERSHIP GUIDES DOWN PATHLESS WASTE In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind. —Job 12:10 He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away. He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a pathless waste. They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunken man. —Job 12:23-25             It is illusion and deception to think a person or nation is ultimately in control.  The ungodly think like this.  They only look at the here and now and that is what they…

GIVE THANKS! Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. —Psalm 136:1             Have you given thanks to our Lord today?  Why not stop whatever you are doing at this moment and thank Him?  We have so much to thank Him for.  This Psalm 136 is full of thankfulness to Him.  May our hearts also be filled with gratefulness.             We are so thankful to know that God is good and there is not even a shadow of evil in His character.  Not only is He good, but we can always depend on His love… forever!  Oh, give thanks for His steadfast love. …