by Susan Barnes | 5 Feb 2018 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. Then the Lord said to Satan, “… And he (Job) still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.” Job 2:3 If you read this verse without knowing the first...
by Susan Barnes | 27 Sep 2013 | Devotions OT
“Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.” Job 42:6 Job’s friends wanted Job to repent but he refused because he hadn’t willfully sinned. Yet now, in the presence of God, he voluntarily repents—not of the sins that supposedly led to his suffering but...
by Susan Barnes | 15 Sep 2013 | Devotions OT
If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand? Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people. Job 35:7-8 I find Elihu is the most annoying of all Job’s friends! His language is...
by Susan Barnes | 8 Sep 2013 | Devotions OT
How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble! Job 26:2 Job is cynical and critical of his friends. The remarks in this verse are addressed to Bildad. Despite Bildad’s supposed great theology, he hadn’t helped Job. He hadn’t encouraged,...
by Susan Barnes | 2 Sep 2013 | Devotions OT
Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts …? Job 21:29 Often we can be like Job’s friends and have selected memories or selected deafness. We’re comfortable with our theology and don’t appreciate people pointing out that...
by Susan Barnes | 28 Aug 2013 | Devotions OT
I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. Job 19:25-26 Job presented his complaint to God in the form of a legal trial. In those days a “redeemer” was normally a...
