Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video with live song and lyrics from the group Hillsong United singing … Christ Is Enought … poignantly singing of how we must trust and believe that our Lord is in control and He’s willing - AND ABLE - to handle ALL of life’s challenges.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Job 12:13 [NLT] … 13 “But true wisdom and power are found in God; counsel and understanding are His.
… True insights, thru Job, into the omniscience/omnipotence of God.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Job 12:13-25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Job states truth to his friends about where all power and authority come ... from God alone!
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. 6 Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take.
… No matter our circumstances, we must depend on God and follow His ways. He ALWAYS knows best.
Reference Passage : … Isaiah 55:8-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s wisdom and His ways are ALWAYS higher than ours; and therefor, are often misunderstood.
Reference Passage : … Romans 8:28 [NLT] … 28 And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are the called according to His purpose for them.
… Almost impossible to understand … but TRUE!
Reference Passage : … 1 Peter 5:7 [NLT] … 7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
… When we don’t understand the challenges of life, we simply must give them over to God, Whom we know always cares for us.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Julie Schwab, used a personal reflection to teach about times when we just can’t explain our trials and circumstances. The ODB author wrote … My friend’s father received the dreaded diagnosis: … cancer. Yet, during the chemo treatment process, he became a believer in Jesus and his disease eventually went into remission. He was cancer free for a wonderful eighteen months, but it returned—worse than before. He and his wife faced the reality of the returned cancer with concern and questions but also with a faithful trust in God because of how He saw them through the first time.
I’m not a betting man; but if I were, I would wager that all reading here with me can recall a time in our lives when we simply couldn’t understand what was going on. Perhaps, some are even in the midst of such a time right now. And those who know the Bible, probably the best character to illustrate this dilemma was Job, … a righteous man who had done nothing to experience all the trials God allowed Satan to bring into this man’s life. And he had “friends” who tried to explain why God may’ve allowed all this trouble. But these so-called “friends” didn’t have a clue, did they?
No, and in today’s highlight passage Job sets them straight on the truth that there are just some life circumstances that we’ll never be able to explain with our human logic, science, or intelligence. And out of the truths shared above in the reference Scriptures, we must always remember … God is God and we are NOT! [see photo] And there are times when we just have to trust that God knows what He’s doing or allowing into our lives.
It took Job 42 chapters of quandary to fully figure that out; but he did and finally resolved to just trust God 100%. And so should we!
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for ALWAYS knowing what is best for us.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, join me, to do the 1Peter 5:7 thing today and just cast our cares on God, knowing that He cares for us. … Amen
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