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MORNING— The Noise of the Nations “How blessed are all who take refuge in Him.” Psalm 1 taught us to watch where we walk.Psalm 2 now asks us to watch what the world is doing. The psalm opens with commotion. Why are the nations in an uproar? This is the sound of rebellion. The nations…

MORNING— Rooted in the Word “How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers. But his delight in in the law of the Lord and in His law he meditates day and night.” The first…

MORNING— Now My Eyes Sees You “Then Job answered the LORD and said, “I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted… I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You; Therefore I retract, and I repent in dust…

MORNING— A Whirlwind of Question Marks “Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, ‘Who is this that darkens counselBy words without knowledge?  Now gird up your loins like a man, and I will ask you, and you instruct Me!” Gary Larson once drew a Far Side cartoon imagining God competing with…

MORNING— At the Scent of Water 🌳 “For there is hope for a tree, when it is cut down, that it will sprout again… at the scent of water it will flourish.” Suffering has a way of turning our thoughts toward mortality. Job looks at the natural world and notices something unsettling. A tree can…

MORNING— Cursing the Day You Were Born “Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.” Job does not curse God.He curses the day. That matters. Satan’s objective was never simply to make Job suffer—it was to provoke him into renouncing God. And here, in what may be the darkest chapter of…

MORNING— Will We Accept Good Only? “Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” Job’s suffering is not finished. Job 2 opens with a scene that feels painfully familiar. Once again, the sons of God present themselves before the LORD. Once again, Satan appears. Once again, God points to Job. Job has…

MORNING— A Good Man, A Hard Test “There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.” Years ago, I was standing in a checkout line at the grocery store. The man in front of me had only two…

MORNING— Wisdom at the Banquet “Then Queen Esther replied, ‘If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me as my petition, and my people as my request; for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed…

MORNING— Knowledge Becomes Responsibility “When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and wailed loudly and bitterly.” In 2021, Frances Haugen, a data scientist at Facebook, released internal documents showing the company knew its platform was harming…