GENESIS 12:1-3 Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your kindred and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be...
GENESIS 11:31 And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law. Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there....
JOB 42:10 And the LORD restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. In my office in Lincoln, Nebraska, I have on my desk two boomerangs from Australia. One is the genuine article, the other is a...
Job 37:23-24 “As for the Almighty, we cannot find Him; He is excellent in power, in judgment and abundant justice; He does not oppress. Therefore men fear Him; He shows no partiality to any who are wise of heart.” Gandhi says in his autobiography that in his student days he...
Job 34:21-22 “For His eyes are on the ways of man, and He sees all his steps. There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.” Have you noticed that when people try to hide from trouble they rarely succeed? A true story...
Job 34:10 “Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: Far be it from God to do wickedness, and from the Almighty to commit iniquity.” A man was handing out business cards that read, “Federman and Coe, Merchants.” When asked about his partner the man admitted there was no such...
Job 32:9 “Great men are not always wise, nor do the aged always understand justice.” When we buy a product, especially an expensive item such as an automobile or a computer, we want to know what guarantees come with it. What does the company that made the item promise to...
Job 31:24-25, 28 “If I have made gold my hope, or said to fine gold, ‘You are my confidence’; if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gained much; . . . this also would be an iniquity worthy of judgment, for I would...
Job 31:1 “I have made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a young woman?” Millie Dienert worked with the Billy Graham evangelistic team for 40 years. She commented, “I have always appreciated from a moral point of view how the men have been in their...
Job 28:12, 28 “But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?” And to man He said, “Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.” A young man got into financial difficulty by loaning a friend in another...