Monthly Archives: August 2006

It is too easy for us to look at everything in our lives in the context of ourselves. We want everything to be about us, whether it really is or not. Continue reading →

No one is right. Job is wrong. His friends are wrong. That is part of the lesson God wants to teach us through Job’s story. Continue reading →

We often feel indignation when someone does not believe us. How much more must Job have felt as his friends accused him of some secret sin as the source for all of his troubles? But Job responded eloquently, pointing out that their arguments were not God’s ways but mans, and that is a lesson we would do well to remember in our own time as we are constantly assaulted by the world’s ways. We must remember that the devil, the world, and our own sinfulness will stop at nothing to turn us from our God and our faith, and that activity is persistent. Continue reading →