Job 14:1-22
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass.
When a man pass away, he would not know his sons come to honor or brought low, and he perceives it not. He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.
Life is short and there is no waking a person from the sleep of death.
Job cries to God to hide him away in the land of the dead until his anger is past, and then to restore him.
But despair floods back - what hope is there?
Why?
People under the situation of pain and trouble of innocent, he would rather choose to die.
It seems death can bring the pain away from the flesh.
No one can bring a clean thing out of an unclean, so everyone in the world has sin. No one righteousness in the world, except the Jesus Christ.
How?
Man's days are determined, and the number of his months is with the Lord. Enjoy the life that God gives us.
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Friday, February 6, 2015
Altogether be silent would be wisdom
Job 13:1-28
Job said, if only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
Keep silent and let me speak then let come to my what may.
How many wrongs and sins have I committed? Show me my offense and my sin.
Job's experience gives the lie to the arguments of his friends. He will put his case to God direct and God will acquit開釋 him.
What are the charges against him?
Why?
Job's friends charged Job must sinned against God so he suffered these terror. Man does not know what the reality of Job and background in Heaven.
Job believe that only the Lord can vindicate him, Job hope to talk with the Lord directly, usually it is impossible.
How?
To comfort a friend in dismay, keep silent would be a good strategy. Keep silent would be better than say wrong words and hurt others.
Job said, if only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
Keep silent and let me speak then let come to my what may.
How many wrongs and sins have I committed? Show me my offense and my sin.
Job's experience gives the lie to the arguments of his friends. He will put his case to God direct and God will acquit開釋 him.
What are the charges against him?
Why?
Job's friends charged Job must sinned against God so he suffered these terror. Man does not know what the reality of Job and background in Heaven.
Job believe that only the Lord can vindicate him, Job hope to talk with the Lord directly, usually it is impossible.
How?
To comfort a friend in dismay, keep silent would be a good strategy. Keep silent would be better than say wrong words and hurt others.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Men at ease have contempt for misfortune, Why me?
Job 12:1-25
I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things?
A mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!
Men at ease have contempt for misfortune as the fate to those whose feet are slipping.
Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?
To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.
He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.
Job responds: Job is stung to sarcasm. His friends are not the only ones who can work things out. God is all-wise, all-powerful,
If he turns the norms of wisdom and justice upside-down, what can anyone do about it?
Why?
Compassion is need to everyone. Don't have contempt for misfortune.
There are some who say that we are not truly human until we have suffered. Of course, this is not true, but there are dimensions to our self-understanding and to our realization of what a relationship with God is about, that only emerge when we come face to face with ourselves, often in a situation of suffering or grief.
In the long dialogue section of the book Job is a man in anguish and confused. He is preoccupied with death - in one sense he longs for death as an escape, but then he realizes that if he dies he will not be able to continue to argue his case with God. Who will hear him then when he is in the darkness of Sheol? He longs for God to respond to him so that he can receive an answer to his question. "Why me?"
How?
Why me? No one can answer except God. Most people are sinned in this world, but Job is righteous and blameless and he suffered those misery. How about us?
Be humble and have compassion to those who are suffering misfortune.
I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things?
A mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!
Men at ease have contempt for misfortune as the fate to those whose feet are slipping.
Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?
To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.
He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.
Job responds: Job is stung to sarcasm. His friends are not the only ones who can work things out. God is all-wise, all-powerful,
If he turns the norms of wisdom and justice upside-down, what can anyone do about it?
Why?
Compassion is need to everyone. Don't have contempt for misfortune.
There are some who say that we are not truly human until we have suffered. Of course, this is not true, but there are dimensions to our self-understanding and to our realization of what a relationship with God is about, that only emerge when we come face to face with ourselves, often in a situation of suffering or grief.
In the long dialogue section of the book Job is a man in anguish and confused. He is preoccupied with death - in one sense he longs for death as an escape, but then he realizes that if he dies he will not be able to continue to argue his case with God. Who will hear him then when he is in the darkness of Sheol? He longs for God to respond to him so that he can receive an answer to his question. "Why me?"
How?
Why me? No one can answer except God. Most people are sinned in this world, but Job is righteous and blameless and he suffered those misery. How about us?
Be humble and have compassion to those who are suffering misfortune.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
True wisdom is not a simple matter
Job 11:1-20
For true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.
A witless愚笨 man can no more become wise than a wild donkey's colt can be born a man.(or wild donkey can be born tame馴服)
Zophar the Naamathite said "If you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him, you will lift up you face without shame; you will stand firm and without fear." So he thought Job was sinned against the Lord.
Zophar's word are harshest of all. He has no patience with Job's irreverent talk. Does Job think himself innocent? God is letting him down lightly. Job must put away his sin; then God will restore him.
Why?
Everything is black and white to Zophar. He doesn't doubt that his position is right. Yet hits the mark when he asks 'Can you fathom捉摸 the mystery of God?' for it is in these terms that God will answer Job and Job will be satisfied.
For true wisdom has two sides;for true wisdom is not a simple matter(NLT). For he is manifold in understanding(ESV).that they are double to that which is!(KJB)
How?
True wisdom is not a simple matter! God knows what we are suffering. His love endure forever.
For true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.
A witless愚笨 man can no more become wise than a wild donkey's colt can be born a man.(or wild donkey can be born tame馴服)
Zophar the Naamathite said "If you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him, you will lift up you face without shame; you will stand firm and without fear." So he thought Job was sinned against the Lord.
Zophar's word are harshest of all. He has no patience with Job's irreverent talk. Does Job think himself innocent? God is letting him down lightly. Job must put away his sin; then God will restore him.
Why?
Everything is black and white to Zophar. He doesn't doubt that his position is right. Yet hits the mark when he asks 'Can you fathom捉摸 the mystery of God?' for it is in these terms that God will answer Job and Job will be satisfied.
For true wisdom has two sides;for true wisdom is not a simple matter(NLT). For he is manifold in understanding(ESV).that they are double to that which is!(KJB)
How?
True wisdom is not a simple matter! God knows what we are suffering. His love endure forever.
Monday, February 2, 2015
Do you have eyes of flesh?
Job 10:1-22
“Your hands shaped me and made me.
Will you now turn and destroy me?
Remember that you molded me like clay.
Will you now turn me to dust again? Disaster destroy both.
Does it please you to oppress me,to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked?
Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a mortal sees?
Are your days like those of a mortal or your years like those of a strong man, that you must search out my faults and probe after my sin —though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand? Why?
Are not my few days almost over?
Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy
The creator has turned Destroy. Will he allow no respite before life is over?
Why?
Job query God why God destroyed him? If he is sinned,he hope God may give him rest before he lay down.
God does have eyes of flesh and even more clearer to see a mortal heart.
“Your hands shaped me and made me.
Will you now turn and destroy me?
Remember that you molded me like clay.
Will you now turn me to dust again? Disaster destroy both.
Does it please you to oppress me,to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked?
Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a mortal sees?
Are your days like those of a mortal or your years like those of a strong man, that you must search out my faults and probe after my sin —though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand? Why?
Are not my few days almost over?
Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy
The creator has turned Destroy. Will he allow no respite before life is over?
Why?
Job query God why God destroyed him? If he is sinned,he hope God may give him rest before he lay down.
God does have eyes of flesh and even more clearer to see a mortal heart.
Do not square with his belief
Job 9:1-35
How can a mortal凡人 be righteous before God?
How then can I dispute with him? How an I find words to argue with him? Though I were innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my Judge for mercy.
It is all the same; that is why I say,' He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'
Job believed, as Bildad does, in the justice of God. But his own case will not square with his belief. to accord or agree:"Your theory does not square with the facts."
God has condemned an innocent man. How can anyone call him to account?
Good, bad - it is all one.
V 5-13 forms a hymn to God. Its images come from ancient creations stories.
Why?
In his bitterness Job sees God as an unjust judge. Like many people before and since. Job's basic problem was to get a hearing at all, and even if he got as the court he cloud not be sure of a fair hearing and impartial administration of the law.
No one can say he is righteousness before the Lord.
How?
Job believed he is innocent, but who can argue with God, Who can get the answer from God? So he said good and bad are all one be destroyed.
How can a mortal凡人 be righteous before God?
How then can I dispute with him? How an I find words to argue with him? Though I were innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my Judge for mercy.
It is all the same; that is why I say,' He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'
Job believed, as Bildad does, in the justice of God. But his own case will not square with his belief. to accord or agree:"Your theory does not square with the facts."
God has condemned an innocent man. How can anyone call him to account?
Good, bad - it is all one.
V 5-13 forms a hymn to God. Its images come from ancient creations stories.
Why?
In his bitterness Job sees God as an unjust judge. Like many people before and since. Job's basic problem was to get a hearing at all, and even if he got as the court he cloud not be sure of a fair hearing and impartial administration of the law.
No one can say he is righteousness before the Lord.
How?
Job believed he is innocent, but who can argue with God, Who can get the answer from God? So he said good and bad are all one be destroyed.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Salt to an open wound
Job 8:1-22
Surely God does not reject a blameless man or strengthen the hands of evildoers. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
We were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
Eliphaz had begun gently. Bildad takes a firmer line as Job's words grow wilder. God is just. He rewards the good and punishes the wicked. Bildad's words are salt to an open wound.
Why?
To be a counselor should face the situation of the weaker, sicker or needed person. Don't put salt to an open wound.
Surely God will reward those who obey his words, but some disaster or trial may come upon them. We don't know why. But God's knows and God has his way to his lived one.
How?
Trust in the Lord and don't put salt to an open wound.
Surely God does not reject a blameless man or strengthen the hands of evildoers. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
We were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
Eliphaz had begun gently. Bildad takes a firmer line as Job's words grow wilder. God is just. He rewards the good and punishes the wicked. Bildad's words are salt to an open wound.
Why?
To be a counselor should face the situation of the weaker, sicker or needed person. Don't put salt to an open wound.
Surely God will reward those who obey his words, but some disaster or trial may come upon them. We don't know why. But God's knows and God has his way to his lived one.
How?
Trust in the Lord and don't put salt to an open wound.
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