Job 5:14 By day, they encounter darkness, At noon, they grope as if night. I am writing this on the third anniversary of my mom’s passing. That definitely put me into a funk where I might as well have been groping around in the dark. Part of why we have two cats I… Continue reading Job 83: Study 68: Job 5:14 – More Glory than Ever Before
Job 5:13 Who entraps the crafty in their own cunning, The schemes of the perverse go awry quickly. My immediate response to reading this verse again was how I just debated whether to use craft or cunning in the previous verse and now I used them both in this verse that immediately follows.… Continue reading Job 82: Study 67: Job 5:13 – Crafty Failure?
1 John 3:1-3 New King James Version 3 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He… Continue reading The Letters of John – Lesson 7 – 1 John 3:1-3 – Hope for Purity
Job 5:12 Who thwarts the devices of the crafty, So that their hands achieve no success. I stayed up late to watch the Baylor game. Along the way, the little kid sounded dejected when it was certain I would not continue to watch movies she wanted to watch with her. My only interest… Continue reading Job 81: Study 66: Job 5:12 – Crafty Failure?
The Christian Man – Chapter 3 – Growth Becoming a more kingdom minded man is the goal of the chapter and I took a ton of notes. I forget how I did this the first two chapters, but I may have updated my method and I am going to roll with it. In business, there… Continue reading Morley’s The Christian Man 3: Growth – The 90-10 rules?
Job 5:11 Who sets the humble on high, The afflicted are rescued. I was reading a book that wraps up “the bestselling science fiction adventure of all time”. I am not sure who made up that statistic, but in the age of GOATs (Greatest Of All Time) I feel the culture saying that… Continue reading Job 80: Study 65: Job 5:11 – Joy vs. G.O.A.T.
Job 5:10 Who bestows rain on the earth, Sends water upon the fields. As I write this, I am on vacation at the beach trying to balance the desire to see whales (which I just did as the exact second I started to type that) with the drive to people watch and the… Continue reading Job 79: Study 64: Job 5:10 – Beaches and Whales
Zephaniah 1 – Speedy Riddance Haggai 1 – I am with you Zechariah 1 – Good words and comfortable words Malachi 1 – A father and a master I read a Calvin and Hobbes that had Calvin listing all the things that bugged him. Hobbes suggested that he add “Overly negative people” to the… Continue reading Daily Summaries: A new level of randomness 43: The Ones – Part 7 – Good and Comfortable Words
Job 5:9 Who performs wonders beyond man’s grasp, Miracles beyond numbering. “Great Things” or “Great Deeds” and I picked “wonders” for the emotional aspect that great does not carry for me. “Unsearchable”, “That cannot be fathomed”, “Without limit”, or “Without end” and I picked “beyond man’s grasp” even though it came from the… Continue reading Job 78: Study 63: Job 5:9 – Live with Faith in Miracles
The Christian Man – Chapter 4 Finding a New Best Friend in My Wife One of the odd ideas displayed in the chapter was that most issues with wives could be solved if we treated them as well as we do our coworkers. It was at little odd to me. Maybe the author treats his… Continue reading Morley’s The Christian Man 4: Married and Best Friend