I suspect it was potentially due to immaturity on my part. Additionally , I had not been married long enough to know better than to claim those things. I will not leave this one picture of Mrs Job in the tale without clarifying the record in her defense. You can not keep living like this, [...]
This man hates Mordecai not simply because he is a Jew, but because Mordecai won’t bow down to him. “If you follow my rules, I will be able to pour money into your treasury. All I ask is that you give me the legal right to rid the land of all of these Jews.” And [...]
Now, before you scowl and entertain thoughts of self-righteousness, thinking that you’d never have replied like that, remember, you are trapped by mates in a safe and unthreatened environment where there are no armed infantrymen outside and governmental custom to obey. Additionally , possibilities are good you don’t live under a cloud due to the [...]
Have you spotted how suffering brings folk together? Have you observed how folk get together to reply to disasters? Difficulty forces us to snatch hands with each other and pull up closer together. It pushes everyone to the same level with the same goal : survival. And so we aren’t stunned to find the Jews [...]
So deep, so extreme must be this respect for God’s holy presence that nobody was even to touch the mountain. The people were to attend on God to chat to Moses and hear the Lord’s words thru the Lord’s servant. This story makes it clear that we reside in a day of pitifully shallow concepts [...]
He did not see himself killing a wicked slave driver as much as courageously striking a blow for God’s folk. His problem? He dedicated himself to the will of Almighty God, but not to the God whose will it was. You and I will become so devoted to the will of Our Lord God, we [...]
God led the writer of Genesis to bare the truth about every area of Joseph’s colorful life. He permits us to see what the person was actually like within, even what he was thinking. We will sum it up in one sentence : his heart was humble before God. Why does the writer add these [...]
Take time next weekend to read again, slowly and scrupulously, through Sat.’s Scripture reading2 Corinthians 11-13. List the issues the apostle Paul endured. I’ve been in work and difficulty, through many restless nights, in hunger and thirst, frequently without food, in cold and exposure. If I need to boast, I can boast of what applies [...]
I grin as I read this, because if anyone ought to had a miserable face, it should have been Joseph. They were there on an impulse of the Pharaoh and certainly wouldn’t be there forever. But Joseph had been charged by the chief executioner’s other half and did not know if he’d ever see the [...]
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When money is our objective for contentment, we must live in fear of losing it, which makes us paranoid and suspicious. When becoming a celebrity is our target, we become competitive lest others upstage us, which makes us envious. When power and influence drive us, we become self-serving and strong-willed, which makes us conceited. And [...]
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