I have found this deep dive reading of the Book of Job inspiring. You may say to yourself, with so much happening in the life of Job how can one find it inspiring. That is a simple question to answer. Holy Spirit nudged me at the start of reading 1 chapter a day in Job to conclude each day with reading chapter 42, the 2nd portion of the chapter of how everything was restored to Job.
I am just guessing but just maybe I was to balance out daily the things happening in his life with also being reminded of how the end concluded in this chapter, RESTORATION and then some. It fascinates me how the 3 daughters he had after the 3 were taken away in the beginning of this book states how they were "Nowhere in the whole country could be found women who were as beautiful as Job's daughters." You know why that fascinates me. There were no Botox/facelifts/plastic surgery/weight loss surgeries, pills or even shots back then and they were known as the not 1 or 2 but all 3 daughters that's beauty stood out to be recognized in that category for the entire country. Does that not also intrigue you?
So, they never state how old Job was when he died but just that at a very old age Job died. So, after what he endured and then the restoration happens in his life it states, "Job lived 140 years after this. He saw his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren." Surely one can find hope in this book in the bible. May I suggest if you are so lead/inclined to do a daily chapter read in this book of the bible to then balance it out by concluding that day's bible reading with chapter 42 so as to find hope. When you look at what he is going through in his life, even with questions he has and having to deal with the not so positive friends in his life, if he could have only turned a few pages ahead to find out what restoration in his life would be like maybe he could see hope in the midst of it all. See how our God is ever faithful, and it was Job operating even in the midst of this with faith to believe God still was with him. Doesn't that fascinate you also. It amazes me how 1 does the study and then somewhere down the line if someone reads this blog entry and then tries preaching on this subject matter with the experience I am having. Go figure. There are some out there that don't want to put the work and effort in the study of their bible and so they take the easy way-out by searching other's experiences and then using them to profit themselves. Gues what, God is watching, and He is faithful and not only a loving but a just God.
After reading early this morning, I then wanted more of the word of God in my bible and Holy Spirit gently nudged me to read after closing my bible and opening it to a page to read and this is what I read. Are you ready to hear the word of God in the bible? Matthew 17 when Moses and Elijah appear with Jesus as Peter, James and John were up a high mountain. Think about this in reality if you may ... when one sees a mountain don't you usually see a peak or point at the top of the mountain when looking at it from a below perspective. Point being when you reach the top of the mountain there is not much space up there is there, if there is a mountain peak and you are at the top. With that thought in mind then I would imagine there was not much space up there for the 3 disciples to fall out of being terrified when they heard a voice come out of the clouds and said, "This is my Son, whom I love and with whom I am pleased. Listen to him!"
So, if the disciples who were with Jesus were terrified by hearing the voice of God speaking to them, and they fell to the ground facedown then how can we have the so called many going to heaven all the time and hearing the audible voice of God and they are not struck with terror and falling facedown to the ground? Makes one wonder if they are making these things up, they seem to be sharing and profiting off of it also. Be very cautious with whom you are allowing to speak into your life. Extra cautious as to making donations to ministries of this kind also. I was taught many years ago that when you plant a monetary seed offering into a ministry you are then under that covering somehow. Meaning, if there is lying and deception/sin in that ministry you are under that same sort of junk also. Along with the flip side also of good ministries that are upright and blessing the body of Christ. Be very cautious with whom you align yourself when it comes to a ministry okay. There are some pretty good city slickers/con artists in the guise of a minister or ministry out there and bit by bit the covering is coming off and they are being exposed so as to not hurt the body of Christ. If you have been caught in that web, then repent and ask forgiveness from God and move forward.
You know, as I am reading my bible and noticing a few notes I would write in the margins of my bible. I am going and marking through them with a pen because things like what I recently notated are false doctrine teachings I picked up somewhere along the line. Just today I stumbled upon 1 of them in which I notated in a margin of all places in Matthew 18, under the section dealing with believers when they do wrong. This is what I wrote 6/1/01 "Money thou art loosed & money thou art loosed in my life, money cometh to me now." How gullible I must have been back then, better yet how trusting I was of other messages back then.
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