(Job 19:14-19, 25)
My relatives and friends are gone.
Those who were guests in my house have forgotten me;
My servant girls treat me like a stranger and foreigner.
When I call a servant, he doesn’t answer –
even when I beg him to help me.
Children despise me and laugh when they see me.
My closest friends look at me with disgust;
Those I loved most have turned against me.
But I know there is someone in heaven
Who will come at last to my defense.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
24.2 Comfort Is Suffering
(Job 2:11-13)
Three of Job’s friends were Eliphaz, from the city of Teman, Bildad, from the land of Shuah, and Zophar, from the land of Naamah. When they heard how much Job had been suffering, they decided to go and comfort him. While they were still a long way off they saw Job, but did not recognize him. When they did, they began to weep and wail, tearing their clothes in grief and throwing dust into the air and on their heads. Then they sat there on the ground with him for seven days and nights without saying a word, because they saw how much he was suffering.
24.1 Together Until Death
(Ruth 1:16-17)
But Ruth answered, “Don’t ask me to leave you! Let me go with you. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Wherever you die, I will die, and that is where I will be buried. May the Lord’s worst punishment come upon me if I let anything but death separate me from you!”
Saturday, November 21, 2009
23.4 Prayer For Deliverance
(Psalm 141)
I call to you, Lord; help me now!
Listen to me when I call to you.
Receive my prayer as incense,
my uplifted hands as an evening sacrifice.
Lord, place a guard at my mouth,
a sentry at the door of my lips.
Keep me from wanting to do wrong
and from joining evil men in their wickedness.
May I never take part in their feasts.
A good man may punish me and rebuke me
in kindness,
But I will never accept honor from evil men,
because I am always praying against their evil deeds.
When their rulers are thrown down from rocky cliffs,
the people will admit that my words were true.
Like wood that is split and chopped into bits,
so their bones are scattered at the edge of the grave.
But I keep trusting in you, my Sovereign Lord.
I seek protection; don’t let me die!
Protect me from the traps they have set for me,
from the snares of those evildoers.
May the wicked fall into their own traps
while I go by unharmed.
I call to you, Lord; help me now!
Listen to me when I call to you.
Receive my prayer as incense,
my uplifted hands as an evening sacrifice.
Lord, place a guard at my mouth,
a sentry at the door of my lips.
Keep me from wanting to do wrong
and from joining evil men in their wickedness.
May I never take part in their feasts.
A good man may punish me and rebuke me
in kindness,
But I will never accept honor from evil men,
because I am always praying against their evil deeds.
When their rulers are thrown down from rocky cliffs,
the people will admit that my words were true.
Like wood that is split and chopped into bits,
so their bones are scattered at the edge of the grave.
But I keep trusting in you, my Sovereign Lord.
I seek protection; don’t let me die!
Protect me from the traps they have set for me,
from the snares of those evildoers.
May the wicked fall into their own traps
while I go by unharmed.
23.3 Christ Feed Us For Liberty
(Galatians 5:1-6)
Freedom is what we have – Christ has set us free! Stand, then, as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again.
Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, it means that Christ is of no use to you at all. Once more I warn any man who allows himself to be circumcised that he is obliged to obey the whole Law. Those of you who try to be put right with God by obeying the Law have cut yourselves off from Christ. You are outside God’s grace. As for us, our hope is that God will put us right with him; and this is what we wait for by the power of God’s Spirit working through our faith. For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.
Freedom is what we have – Christ has set us free! Stand, then, as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again.
Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, it means that Christ is of no use to you at all. Once more I warn any man who allows himself to be circumcised that he is obliged to obey the whole Law. Those of you who try to be put right with God by obeying the Law have cut yourselves off from Christ. You are outside God’s grace. As for us, our hope is that God will put us right with him; and this is what we wait for by the power of God’s Spirit working through our faith. For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.
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