Is it your wisdom?

I know the past several days have been tough reading in Job.  I mean do his friends and Job seem like  ~ well us?  At times?  I know we don't like to admit it, but woe to me.  And then I think I know it all...don't I?  Tough reading when we might see ourselves in not so admirable ways.  Sometimes we think we are helping a friend with encouraging words and yet we are dragging them down deeper?  And Job?  but ...nobody is really grasping who God is and neither do we.

Oh, we think we know, but these next two days really share with us who God is, was, and will be and He does it himself!  Yes, He reminds Job, his friends and us who He is and I absolutely love these two days of reading in the Chronological Bible.  Anytime, you  are fighting a battle and you forget how to face it.  Open up your Bible to these two days of reading in Job and be reminded who is really fighting the battle for you and me!  January 30 and 31 is a fabulous reading to keep in your heart always knowing who God is helps each of us face the day ahead.

Some of my favorites from today are these wonderful reminders ~

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Tell me, if you know so much.

Who determined the dimensions, and stretched out the surveying line?

Who kept the sea inside it boundaries as it burst from the womb, and as I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it in thick darkness?

Have you ever commanded the morning to appear and caused the dawn to rise in the east?

Can you direct the movement of stars-

Can you shout to the clouds and make it rain?

Can you make lightning appear and cause it to strike as you direct?

Have you given the horse its strength or clothed its neck with a flowing mane?

Did you give it the ability to leap like a locust?

Its majestic snorting is terrifying!

Is it your wisdom that makes the hawk soar and spread its wings toward the south? Is it at your command that the eagle rises to the heights to make its nest? 

Do you still want to argue with the Almighty?  You are still God's critic, but do you have the answers?

Wow, I love this wonderful reminder of who God truly is...He is everything!  He is...

Blessings,

Debbie

Hanging by a thread

Hanging by a thread, isn't very reassuring is it?  

In today's reading Bildad a friend of Job's is giving one of his talks to him and these words were a part of the speech...

The same happens to all who forget God.  The hopes of the godless evaporate.

Their confidence hangs by a thread.  They are leaning on a spider's web.

Well, the visual works!  Spider's webs and threads aren't very helpful.  So when we forget who God truly is...we aren't hanging on much.

The book of Job is filled with wise thoughts and reminders of who God is and was.  The friends try to be helpful and we have all been just like them at times.  (thinking we know a lot and being all helpful) but...Oh well, that is for another day.

My thought was forgetting God is just like hanging by a thread.  It will break and so will we.  Hang on His Truths and in constant relationship with Him and you will be holding on to a lot more than a thread.  You are believing and holding on to His amazing love for you.

Sweet blessings,

Debbie

Praise the Lord

Yesterday, I woke up to a foggy Louisiana morning.  I wanted to take a few photos and thought today might be a good day to find the pelicans at Cross Lake.  So, before work I headed to Cross Lake.

Imagine, my surprise when I not only found them, but in the most beautiful Louisiana setting.  God gives us the most precious moments.  We just have to pay attention at all times.  Even in the most difficult situations God is there.

Our reading takes us to Job this morning.  Job is a beautiful, but tough reading.  Tough because Job goes through some really terrible things.  Life happened to Job and it happened all at once almost and in the most horrible ways, but Job still praises God.

Today, Job 1:21 - 22 just spoke to my heart and hopefully it will yours too.

He said, "I came naked from my mother's womb, and I will be naked when I leave.  The LORD gave me what I have, and the LORD has taken it away.  Praise the name of the LORD!" 

In all of this, Job did not sin by blaming God.

Is these not the most beautiful verses?  Job lost everything and he was still praising the LORD.

Also, another verse that got my attention and not because I liked it...but it does serve to remind each of us that Satan is around.

Job 1:7

Satan answered the LORD, "I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that's going on."

Satan must be having a big time right now. Watching everything happening on this earth and pushing and prodding each of us in his direction.  Just tell Satan to go away that you are a daughter to the King! or Son to the King!

Yet, we know that God is with us every moment!  We know God is in charge!  We know He goes before us, is with us, and He is following us.  We are His, so Satan can just keep right on in his little evil ways, because we know God wins!

Today, look for special moments to share with God!

Sweet blessings,

Debbie

Never another thought

Do you ever feel forgotten?  Life gets busy and everyone around you is to?

Imagine Joseph sitting in that prison.  Waiting for whatever God had in store for him and never giving up.  He waited so patiently.  Trusting.  

The cup-bearer and the baker are sent to the prison by the Pharaoh and they have dreams they don't understand.  Joseph shares that God is the one that may interpret dreams.  They share their dreams and he shares the meaning.  They return to the pharaoh's party the dreams interpretations happen and the cup-bearer forgets all about Joseph, never giving him another thought. (in that moment) Check the story out in Genesis 40. 

Two more years happen with Joseph in that prison.  Yet he trust and he believes when the pharaoh suddenly dreams something he doesn't understand.  Nobody around him does either until suddenly these words are uttered by the cup-bearer, "Today I have been reminded of my failure," (better late than never), Some time ago, ...the story is told of Joseph interpreting their dreams taking place just as he had told them.  Immediately the pharaoh sent for Joseph and he went from the prison to the man in charge of everybody, but the pharaoh.  Finally in God's timing, Joseph was about to serve the Lord in a huge way.

Joseph received a new name from the pharaoh it is Zaphenath-paneah.  The Egyptian name and meaning is "God speaks and lives."  The people realized that the Lord was with Joseph.  

God's timing is not ours.  Don't you think that if Joseph could have he would have gotten out sooner?  Don't you think that the Lord works on us through whatever our circumstances to grow us where we need to be to serve Him best?

Sometimes we are called to wait.  After all, it's not about us.

Sweet blessings,

Debbie