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Lay Down My Pride: Knowing Our Place (Job 31:35-40)

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“Lay down my pride, my desires, my demise. I'm ready now to see it Your way.” – Jeremy Camp 🧐 Dear response requester, We all want answers. I hope we ask for them through prayers. However, let’s not be demanding. Let’s accept that only God can be all-knowing. Read how Job longed for an explanation of his calamity, how he desired a reply from the Almighty. Job 31:35-40 (NASB) 35 Oh that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature; Let the Almighty answer me! And the indictment which my adversary has written, 36 I would certainly carry it on my shoulder, I would tie it to myself like a garland. 37 I would declare to Him the number of my steps; Like a prince, I would approach Him. 38 “If my land cries out against me, And its furrows weep together; 39 If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or have caused its owners to lose their lives, 40 May the thorn-bush grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended...

Unpredictable: No One Can Calculate God (Job 23:8-17)

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“Help me see that I'm small, that I can't know it all 'cause You're so unpredictable.” – Francesca Battistelli 🤯 Dear wanderer for the Father’s wisdom, You can read all the books on earth, and you can even travel back to its birth, but you can’t know it all. Compared to God, it’s an overstatement to say our mind is small. Let’s see in the passage below how wherever Job went, the mind of God he couldn’t know. Job 23:8-17 (NASB) 8 “Behold, I go forward but He is not there, And backward, but I cannot perceive Him; 9 When He acts on the left, I cannot see Him; He turns to the right, but I cannot see Him. 10 But He knows the way I take; When He has put me to the test, I will come out as gold. 11 My foot has held on to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside. 12 I have not failed the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food. 13 But He is unique, and who can make Him turn? Whatev...