Job 18:15

A flood of fire is ensconced as their tent,

   Brimstone is scattered about his dwelling.

Brimstone and Fire. The classic sermon to scare people to Jesus. I would not think it would work, but I do know that people seek God when their circumstances offer no hope. My circumstances are not all I want, but it was never about me. It was in my mind, but I was wrong. Been that a lot lately.

This first stitch was all over the place. I simply followed my favorite source. I was probably being lazy. The main two competing ideas are that ‘He dwells in a tent not his own’ and ‘Others dwell in tent without him.’

The second stitch had some variation, but they all meant the same thing. Hard to think about someone else in his tent fitting with that.

As I have gone over a few conversations in my head, my sinful response is to push away those people as the conversations went poorly. The Holy Spirit is telling me otherwise. If my life were for me, at this point, it would have no hope. Since my life is for Christ and to serve Him and others, I have all the hope I need, and a lot of suffering to put up with. As my oldest kid said the other day (more or less), hard to see how non-believers put up with their lot.

I did win a card I wanted last night. I am super happy. Happy is the non-believers goal, so super happy doesn’t have much impact. My new goal is to sell as many baseball cards at the show early next year as possible and minimize the stress from minimizing my losses. Still hard to toss away things of value, even if I still am ahead overall.

I pray that my efforts here are helping others. The habit book I am working through talks of results in numbers, but that was never the goal. Now that I am trying to work on me, I feel more engaged as I wrestle with what God wants me to learn. I feel that my study of Job is going to dominate my life once I get it kick started. Maybe that will help my attitude.

Written 10/9/25, Posted 10/28/25, Job 425/1070