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...
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...
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,...
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...
Job 3:9-12- “May the stars of its morning be dark; may it look for light, but have none, and not see the dawning of the day; because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes. Why did I not die at...