Daily D – Job 38:1-2

by | May 30, 2024 | Daily D | 0 comments

David G Bowman Logo

Job 38:1, 2
Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind.
He said: Who is this who obscures my counsel with ignorant words?” (CSB)

“Why do you confuse the issue?
Why do you talk without knowing what you’re talking about?” (The Message)

After Job forgave his friends and prayed on their behalf, God restored his fortunes. What good gifts of God do we fail to receive because we fail to forgive and pray for those who wound us? 

Those of us who have been forgiven so much should lead the world in extending forgiveness to others.

Those of us who have been shaped by the intercession of others should kneel in intercession daily.

Those of us who earnestly desire God’s best gifts should learn to see all things, including unnecessary pain and suffering, through the eyes of faith and a heart of complete trust in God, even when we cannot comprehend every Why?

Forgiveness unties the knots of our lives. 

Intercession focuses God’s favor on others who are as undeserving as us.

Pain and suffering are God’s megaphone, as C. S. Lewis says, inviting us to hear the greater reality, the Deeper Magic (again, Lewis), of God’s good grace, mercy, and kindness. 

There is another side to every season of loss. There are realities we cannot see as surely as what we do perceive. There is more than we can now know at work within us, around us, and for us. Our God is a God of restoration and renewal. 

God’s Greater Yes looms large over what we consider our final end. His affirmation consumes every negation. 

I will bow in forgiveness and kneel in intercession.

Our Father, my gratitude for your immense and continuing forgiveness is expressed in leading with the kindness of forgiveness and the habit of intercession. Use me in whatever manner you see fit to exercise your work of restoration and renewal in the lives of others. Amen. 

0 Comments

Submit a Comment

CONNECT WITH ME!

Interested in learning more about Church Unique or Life Younique? Send a note through the Get In Touch box or Message me through the Facebook link above.

          Church Unique Logo          Auxano Logo

GET IN TOUCH!

READ MY BLOG!

Daily D – Luke 1:76-79

Luke 1:76-79 And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High;
for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,
to give his people the knowledge of salvation
through the forgiveness of their sins,
because of the tender mercy of our God,
by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven
to shine on those living in darkness
and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the path of peace.
(NIV)

Daily D – John 20:24-28

John 20:24-28 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”

But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”

Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”

Daily D – John 18:10-11

John 18:10, 11 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant’s name was Malchus.) Jesus commanded Peter, “Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?”

Daily D – John 13:3-5

John 13:3-5 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

Daily D – John 11:6

John 11:6 “So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, . . .”