Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song, and lyrics from Matt Maher singing … Hold Us Together … poignantly singing of how God leads us out of our despair when we don’t know where we are or where to go.
Out of the fog, ... into His light !!
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Highlight Passage : … Job 2:10 [ESV] ... 10 "… Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
… Realizing where he was and what had happened, Job declares his faith in God.
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Highlight Passage [Context] : … Job 2:1-10 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… Job “wakes up” to find everything gone and though not knowing what has happened, God’s man holds onto his faith.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 119:105 [ESV] … 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
… When we feel lost or confused, we need to seek God’s light of truth to show us the way, … His way!
Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Solomon, charges His own to trust in Him, even when we’re confused or feeling lost.
Reference Passage : … Philippians 4:13 [ESV] … 13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
… No matter what the conditions, Paul knew, and shared with fellow Christians that his strength always came from his relationship with Christ.
Reference Passage : … 2Timothy 1:7 [ESV] … 7 … for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
… Believers should know that fear is never from God, and that God will give us His Spirit of power and love in times of confusion and doubt.
Reference Passage : … 1Peter 5:6-7 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Peter, exhorts us, when we’re confused, to humble ourselves and bring our cares and confusion to a God, … Who ALWAYS cares for us.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Mike Wittmer, AT THIS LINK uses a story of someone waking up confused on an airplane, not know where she was, to illustrate how our relationship with Christ and His light of truth needs to be our focus point when we don’t know how to walk out of the fogginess of life (see photo).
Every been there? I have, … waking up and not knowing where I was. It’s a scary feeling; and many may be feeling that way right now in this pandemic, … with all the chaos in life making it feel like one is in a fog and not knowing where we are or what to do. Imagine what Job must’ve felt like after God let Satan get into his life and he felt so lost and confused as to how he got on that ash-heap of life [see highlight passage].
But we see that Job didn’t lose his faith. He reached out, as all the scriptures above exhort us to do, and sought the answers from His God. And so should we in these foggy times of confusion and disorientation.
Because, trusting the Lord, He promises to ALWAYS be there for us. And if we seek His way out of the fog, using His light of truth from His word, He will be our “GPS” (i.e., “God’s Positioning System”), leading us onward to His eternal joy and peace.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for giving us your light of truth to lead us out of these foggy times.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, to seek God’s light of truth from His word to show us the way out of the fog and onward to our home in glory.
Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.</ span>
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