Tomorrow’s Reading: Job 41-42/Matt 16
God speaks to Job and its one of my favorite places in the bible - God outlines his mighty power and all the thing of His creation. Job can do nothing - and has a quite humbling response; 'I am unworthly'. Aren't we all... wow.
Jesus feeds a crowd of 4000 (plus women and children) - didn't realize/remember there were two mass feedings, that were nearly identicle in nature; 7 loaves, and 2/1 fish; the first was chapter 14. Thoughts?
Oh.. Sea of Galilee of 'today' - thought this would be a 'good share'.
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The Lord speaks – with a thundering voice.
God ‘lays the smack down’ on Job and its just great in v3 – Brace yourself like a man. Side note: When the going get tough in your life (symbolically like Job’s), think about what God told Job – Brace up!! This is the only place in the bible that I recall where God speaks about himself and what’s he done. Just awesome!
If you read each verse and pause for just a second to think about the unmistakable/undeniable power of God: ‘where where you when I laid the earths foundations’, or ‘walking in the recesses of the deep’ (God is everywhere, right) or the ‘storehouses of the snow’. This makes me feel small – and inspires me greatly to ‘continually praise him’ and be thankful for every single thing I see, have, enjoy, do,... yeah, you get the point.
And I too was awaiting these Chapters and Jobs reply as Kevin mentioned in his comments yesterday; Job responds by simply saying ‘I am unworthy’. Wow.
Jesus leaves Gennesaret and heads for Tyre and Sodon. A woman approaches him, addresses him as ‘Lord, Son of David’, and asked Him to heal here demon possessed daughter. Why do you think he didn’t do this immediately – who were ‘the children’ and who were the ‘dogs’? In the very next versus, Jesus heals many
In v32, I’ve never really pieced together the ‘crowd’; as we’ve been following Jesus’ ways over the past few days, I never thought about it been some/most/all of the same people. Jesus has compassion and wants to feed them all (4000, not counting women or children) with 7 loaves of bread (God’s perfect number) and a single fish.
Question: how does this compare to the feeding of 5000 in chapter 14?
Then he heads for Magadan.
I think Job in 40:3-5 get's it. Just like the tax collector in Luke 18:9-14. I don't think we are where we should be until we get to that point. We have no justifiable excuse. There is nothing we can say or do to justify ourselves. He is immeasurably big. We are incredibly small.
Hey C. - couldn't the "children" be interpreted as the Israelites and the "dogs" interpreted as the Gentiles? I took the comment in v 21 that she was a Canaanite to mean she was a descendant of the people the Israelites defeated when they moved in. Can't remember exactly if was Canaanites but some of those tribes were completely wiped out and others kept around as slaves for the tribes of Israel. I'm thinking the Canaanites were one of the pagan tribes that were kept around.
Check out Judges 1:28. Bad idea! Read Judges 2:20-23
I had a similar question like csb regarding Matt verse but what kevin said makes sense. Job, what can I say..."Brace yourself like a man, I will question u and u will answer me" NICE!
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