FAST, FASTER, FASTEST

Job 7:6 – “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle.” Men have always had a love affair with speed. The faster they can go–first with horses, then with cars and now with space shuttles–the happier they are. Speed has increased to the point where we have moved from measuring...

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THE POWER OF WORDS

Job 6:24-27- “Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; cause me to understand wherein I have erred. How forceful are right words! But what does your arguing prove? Do you intend to reprove my words, and the speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind? Yes, you overwhelm...

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GOD’S CHASTENING

Job 5:17 – “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.” Lou Holtz, former head football coach of the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, is legendary in his adherence to discipline. In an interview with The Saturday Evening Post in 1989,...

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SNAFU

Job 5:6-7 – For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble spring from the ground; yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Perhaps you have heard someone talk about a snafu. You probably realized that this meant something had gone wrong, but you...

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THE POWER OF SILENCE

Job 2:11, 13- Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place–Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come and mourn with him, and to comfort...

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KEEPING YOUR BALANCE

Job 2:10- But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips. An old Arab proverb says, “All sun and no rain makes...

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YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU

Job 1:21-And he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” A few years ago, advice columnist Ann Landers printed a supposedly true story of a tightfisted husband...

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RUBBLE REACTION

Job 1:20-Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped. A Sunday school teacher was giving an object lesson on reactions. She placed a glass on a small table and carefully filled it to the brim with water. Then she...

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