DAY 26 Read Job 40 through 42; Psalms 111 and 112.
Today's reading concludes the story of Job and includes two psalms of praise. These two psalms provide a fitting climax to Job's experience.
Memory gem: "The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends" (Job 42:10).
Thought for today:
Job found his friends to be miserable comforters, but he found God a great comforter. And his trust became so deep that he could endure all things and lay his burden upon the Lord. What an example this is for us!
Many modern cities in our land are linked together by a chain of homes for the refuge of those who have been unfortunate and have fallen. A while back the man whose generous gifts made these homes possible died in California, and his body was shipped by train across the country to New York for burial. In every large city where it stopped, large groups of women and girls, with tears in their eyes and flowers in their hands, met the train. What was back of his great gifts and wonderful deeds? It is said that he had an only daughter who was the joy of his heart. Her laughter was the music of his soul, but the laughter ceased, and the music was gone. There at her grave, the heartbroken father consecrated his life to Christ and gave his all--his wealth, his time, his influence, his strength--to a ministry of compassion to the homeless and unfortunate. And so, out of his great loss came blessing to his own self and to the world.
Have you had disappointments? Have you experienced eclipses of the sun of joy? Have you had difficulties, heartbreak? Let all these things lead you to Christ and His salvation. Then as you pray for others, blessings will come to you and to them, and your latter days will be "the best of life, for which the first was made" (Robert Browning), as it was with Job.
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Difficult or obscure words:
Job 41:1. "Leviathan"--possible crocodile, certainly not a whale, perhaps some monster now extinct.
Job 41:13. "Double bridle"--a bridle that has two bits and four reins, or a Weymouth bridle.
Job 41:18. "Neesings"--sneezings.
Today's reading concludes the story of Job and includes two psalms of praise. These two psalms provide a fitting climax to Job's experience.
Memory gem: "The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends" (Job 42:10).
Thought for today:
Job found his friends to be miserable comforters, but he found God a great comforter. And his trust became so deep that he could endure all things and lay his burden upon the Lord. What an example this is for us!
Many modern cities in our land are linked together by a chain of homes for the refuge of those who have been unfortunate and have fallen. A while back the man whose generous gifts made these homes possible died in California, and his body was shipped by train across the country to New York for burial. In every large city where it stopped, large groups of women and girls, with tears in their eyes and flowers in their hands, met the train. What was back of his great gifts and wonderful deeds? It is said that he had an only daughter who was the joy of his heart. Her laughter was the music of his soul, but the laughter ceased, and the music was gone. There at her grave, the heartbroken father consecrated his life to Christ and gave his all--his wealth, his time, his influence, his strength--to a ministry of compassion to the homeless and unfortunate. And so, out of his great loss came blessing to his own self and to the world.
Have you had disappointments? Have you experienced eclipses of the sun of joy? Have you had difficulties, heartbreak? Let all these things lead you to Christ and His salvation. Then as you pray for others, blessings will come to you and to them, and your latter days will be "the best of life, for which the first was made" (Robert Browning), as it was with Job.
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Difficult or obscure words:
Job 41:1. "Leviathan"--possible crocodile, certainly not a whale, perhaps some monster now extinct.
Job 41:13. "Double bridle"--a bridle that has two bits and four reins, or a Weymouth bridle.
Job 41:18. "Neesings"--sneezings.
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