Having shown Job his inability to comprehend the massive complexities, beauty, power, and interdependence of the natural world, the first part of chapter 40 (40:1-14) takes an interlude. God challenges Job to match him in extending his moral purpose into the world.
God sets before Job an amazing array of mysteries of the created order and peppers him with questions.
God challenges Job to show that he is qualified to stand toe-to-toe with God on the issue of his purpose in the world.
God works all things after the counsel of his own will (Ephesians 1: 11), so no one may question his operation of the world or of their own lives.
*The following excerpt is from John Owen's work, The Mortification of Sin. How do we begin to...
With the advent of Bible apps for smartphones and waterproof Bibles for the foul elements, memorizing scripture does not seem to be a necessity for the open-air preacher. With fingertip availability of the Bible, open-air preachers may fall into the trap of thinking that knowing where the verse is in the Bible is just as satisfactory as memorizing it.
“It is advantageous to a people that what they hear should come directly from the word of God, and that they should be led to see the scope and connexion of the sacred writers. For want of this, a great number of Scripture passages are misunderstood and misapplied.”
My heroes consist by and large of the men and women of my church. They are the faithful plodders of God’s Kingdom.
Dear Christian, no one loves you like the Lord Jesus. The love of your dearest friend in all the world is a mere shadow of the love of this friend who sticks closer than a brother!
“For most people nursing homes are places to be avoided. But who is going to bring these people the gospel? The fields are rich for the harvest!”