Job 28 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
God understands the way to it, and he knows its place. Job 28:23 - Job starts this chapter by declaring the amazing feats that man had accomplished. Man had been able to dig to the deepest of places in earth and find the most precious of things. Gold, jewels, silver, and all the treasures one could seek after. Man had been able to light up the darkest of places and had been able to find the most difficult of things to find. Yet wisdom, that was something man on his own couldn’t find. Man could dig deep into the earth, or create the most elaborate contraptions, but man could never find wisdom or the path to it. God though knows the path to wisdom and He knows where wisdom can be found. He Himself is the source of His wisdom. So while we can be so skilled at digging and searching, all we have to do to find the precious resource of wisdom, is simply to look up to our God. Know godly wisdom isn’t going to be found anywhere else outside of God. Thankfully our God is ready to share His wisdom with His children. We can study His word, listen to those more mature in the faith, and we can speak directly to Him in prayer. Today, if then you are in need of godly wisdom, know it’s location is God and Him alone. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: Why do you think wisdom ought to be valued more precious than gold?
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https://www.esv.org/Job+28/
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Job 27 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter, as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit. Job 27:2-4 – Job established his awareness that this season of his life, and all the pains, have been allowed to come his way by the Lord. Despite that acknowledgment though, Job wasn’t swaying from his efforts to live faithfully for the Lord. He will continue to speak truth and have no deceit leave his lips. For while God was the one powerful enough to bring such devastation, He also would be the one powerful enough to bring restoration. As we grow in our walk with the Lord, one aspect that will develop is our understanding of God sovereignty. We will grow in our understanding of how God truly is over all things and in all things. If then God has allowed such a heavy season to come our way, knowing He had the authority and power to keep it from coming our way, then God must have His purpose. We will trust His wisdom and trust that if He was powerful enough to allow this to come our way, He’ll be powerful enough to heal and save too. Keep in mind through every season of hard that God’s desire is communion with us and our obedience to His word. Trust He knows what He is doing even if your situation doesn’t make sense. Keep your eyes upon Jesus and seek out His word to discover Him in the hard. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: How have you seen God’s sovereignty in action?
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https://www.esv.org/Job+27/
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Job 26 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing. He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them. He covers the face of the full moon and spreads over it his cloud. Job 26:7-9 – Job, in speaking of the greatness of God, reveals his wisdom on creation. He knew how the earth hung in space on nothing, unlike ancient mythologies of the day that said the earth rested on the backs of elephants or giant turtles. He was in awe how rain could be stored up in the clouds and how God was able to cover the moon in darkness. Now for us in the 21st century, we have learned all the science behind all this. We know about gravity, cloud formations, and the moon’s rotation around the earth. Yet even with the technical knowledge about things, we still ought to find ourselves in awe of our God. When we see a sunset and know our hands had nothing to do with it. When we hear a baby laugh, and we think of all the wonders that took place in the womb to create such a life. When we stare at the night sky and know we are barely even seeing the beginning of all that is out there in the universe. When we see all that, let’s find ourselves in awe of God again. Like Job stated, all we can see and know is just a whisper of God’s greatness. Take time today to just ponder on the greatness of our God, and allow that pondering to remind you that all your struggles are easily handled by such a great God. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: What’s something in creation that you have seen that just causes you to marvel at God?
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Job 25 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes; how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm! Job 25:4-6 – The answer? Only through Jesus. Bildad, while a little disgusting in his explanation, isn’t wrong in his understanding. Man outside of God is not clean or holy. There is no way for a man to be right or become right in God’s eyes on their own. In order for any person to be right in God’s eyes, we need someone to come and make us right in God’s eyes. That someone is Jesus, and Jesus alone. No faithful act on our part can make us holy. No preacher or parent can make someone right with God. Only Jesus, through His sacrificial death and His glorious resurrection, can make someone holy and right with God. Have you then been seeking your holiness with God through something/someone else other than Jesus? Has doing good works been your path to holiness? Has relying on the prayers and life of someone else been your path to righteousness? If so, acknowledge those paths only lead to death, and only through Jesus can you find life. If you’d like to learn more about how to truly be right with God through Jesus, reach out! I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: Why do you think God made only one way to be made righteous?
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Job 24 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life. He gives them security, and they are supported, and his eyes are upon their ways. They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain. Job 24:22-24 – In this chapter Job is struggling deeply with this overly evident in life problem that the wicked seem to never taste the punishment of their works. They keep working in the darkness with no light being shown on their deeds and no judgement comes their way. They prosper off the backs of others, and nothing is done to stop them. Even though God see all that happens, He isn’t doing anything according to Job. Yet here at the end of his spiel, Job echoes the words of Psalm 73. Psalm 73:16-17 “But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.” The psalmist, struggling with the same issue as Job, was about to give up, but then entered into the sanctuary of the Lord, and everything made since. Sometimes we too like Job and the psalmist won’t understand why God does what He does, or why He doesn’t do some of the things we know he can do. As we though draw closer to the Lord, we can begin to understand His working better. God is inviting us into His sanctuary to dwell with Him and to learn. If then you are confused at why God is moving in such a way in your life, or if you are angry at God for a path of action He chose to take, know His sanctuary is open to you. Pray, read scripture, speak to another believer; find time with God where you bring this to Him and allow Him to show you His reasons. If the answers you’re looking for don’t come in this life, have confidence that when this life is over and we enter into His heaven, all things will be made clear. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: What is a question you have of God that you know you’ll have your answer to in Heaven?
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https://www.esv.org/Job+24/
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Job 23 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food. Job 23:12 – Job couldn’t have responded any clearer to his friends who were accusing him of great and terrible sins. “I have not departed from the commandment of his (God’s) lips.” In fact, I have treasured the words of God more than the food in front of me. As I read this passage today, my wife and I have started together an effort to eat healthier and exercise more. I’m imagining a fresh apple fritter in front of me (my favorite dessert if you didn’t know!), and the desire I would have to eat it and how much of a treasure that dessert is to me. Let’s though go another step further, imagine someone not eating for two weeks and then given a plate of food. That meal would be a blessing upon blessings to them! Now what if they said, “I treasure God’s word to me more than this meal”? That if they’d have to give up one, they’d give up that meal to have God’s word. How is our passion towards the word of God? Do we treasure it like this? Would we set aside some other treasure to have the treasure of God’s word? How are we setting aside God’s word and giving all our time to something far less valuable? Let’s do a heart check today to see what we are allowing to be more of a treasure to us than God’s word. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: In the church, what could be something we improperly place as more valuable than the word of God?
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Job 22 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. Job 22:21-22 – The one who is speaking now is Eliphaz, and while starting off his talk in cruelty and speaking falsehoods about Job, he ends his talk with a true call for repentance from Job. Job needed to agree with God about his sin, and if he would do that, he would find the peace he was looking for with the Lord. While once again this advice didn’t apply to Job’s unique situation, it is a true call for us today. We are to receive the words from the Lord and take them deeply into our lives. We are to agree with the Lord that we have sin in our life and that we need to find His forgiveness, and when we do, we’ll find peace with God. As I read this passage and write this devotion today, my mind goes to what will be happening in a few couple hours here at our church. I’ll be helping with a funeral for a man in our church that found peace with the Lord. He listened to the words of the Lord, agreed with the Lord, and found peace with the Lord. Today my prayer is that you too will find peace with God. Know that peace will only come through the salvation of our souls by Jesus Christ. Listen to the words of scripture, agree with the Lord about your sin, and seek the forgiveness that only God can give. Peace with God is available to you today. Don’t wait, for tomorrow is not guaranteed. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: If you were Job’s friend, what would you be saying to him?
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Job 21 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol. Job 21:13 – Job is now speaking about the contradiction in life that he has seen…that the wicked prosper. What would make sense is those who live holy prosper in life and the wicked see lack instead, but Job speaks about how that is often flipped around. The wicked prosper all their days. Their houses are safe, their families grow, and their days are filled with prosperity. And many die in peace, not having to suffer like Job who was instead living righteously. How does any of that make sense? It only makes sense when we see life from an eternal perspective rather than simply a worldly perspective. While a person, who is living in rejection of God all their earthly life, may still find prosperity all their life and die in peace, sadly what awaits them in the afterlife is worse than any suffering Job tasted. So yes, followers of God may suffer in this life and those who don’t follow God may prosper in all their days on earth. Our lives though aren’t just what happens here, but also what happens in eternity. The momentary pains of this world are nothing in comparison to the future glory that is heaven for believers in Christ. Jesus followers have not gotten the bad deal here in life. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: Who do you know that is being blinding by the blessing of the world from their need of God?
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Job 20 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him. The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God's wrath. This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God. Job 20:27-29 – Zophar, another one of Job’s miserable comforters, speaks a second time. While his speech was thoughtfully crafted, and generally a true statement about the future of the wicked, it once again did not apply to Job’s unique situation. Zophar’s point was that what is sweet in the mouth of the wicked today will eventually turn sour. The highs and the joys of sin are sort lived and the judgement on their wickedness is something no one can escape. God longs for us to grasp this truth about sin. Sin offers wonderful feelings and some intense highs, but sin also does everything it can to blind you to the inevitable crash saying yes to it results in. God though, in His deep love for us, has brought scripture into our lives to help us see the full picture of sin. God is not denying that sin is worldly “fun.” I even heard a pastor once say that if you don’t think sin is enjoyable, they you hadn’t sinned good enough. Our enemy has done far too good of a job at making sin pleasing to the eyes and enjoyable for the moment. Yet our God is in the business of opening our eyes beyond that moment of enjoyment to the terror of destruction sin brings and the eternal death it can cause us too. Be willing to break up with the sin in your story. The moments of enjoyment aren’t worth the wreckage that follows. Instead say yes to the path of holiness and taste the joy that follows a life devoted to Jesus. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: What is a joy you have experienced because you chose to follow Jesus?
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Job 19 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. Job 19:25 – After being verbally accused and attacked by his three “friends” and after crying out to the Lord and finding no response, Job truly feels alone. No help has come and no help is presently at the door waiting to come in. He is in his pain and loss with no one to comfort him. Yet, he knew his Redeemer lives. This was a big statement coming from Job who was at the point of longing for death. That while in a season of deep hurt and silence from the Lord, Job still knew God would be his redeemer. God would come to defend his cause, to avenge the wrong done against him, and clear him of all guilt. And because He lives, Job knew he could face tomorrow. Because his Redeemer lives, all fear was gone and life was still worth living. This mindset of Job in the midst of such pain is essential, yet so difficult. Ideally you’d have loving people speaking into you, reminding you of your Redeemer and His power. Yet, like with Job, that won’t always be the case. Let’s choose today to have this Job mindset each day, in the good and bad. To know that our God lives, that He is able to save, and that He will save. From whatever pain or hurt or hardship or death may be at our doorstep. Let’s believe that our Redeemer lives and He is active in our story, whether we see it or not. He has already come into our deepest of messes and saved us from our sin showing us He is able and that He loves. Praise the Lord that our God is alive and loves us! I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: What’s a song that can remind you that your God is alive?
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https://www.esv.org/Job+19/
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Job 18 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors. In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation. Job 18:14-15 – Bildad, one of the miserable comforters of Job, is now speaking in response to Job’s words and everything he is seeing about Job’s situation. In Bildad’s eyes, if Job is experienced what he is experiencing, it must mean he is a wicked man who is deeply in sin. For according to Bildad, only wicked men deal with struggles like this, and since Job is dealing with these sorts of struggles, that is evidence enough that Job is wicked. We must be willing to see the bigger picture than Bildad did when it comes to the struggles we face or those around us face. There is certainly truth to the idea that those in sin find themselves experiencing deep struggles because of their sin. Yet to categorize everyone in a struggle as a wicked person deep in sin is a false way to think. Job wasn’t being punished for his sin but was in a struggle. Jesus felt severe pain and struggle on the cross but was sinless. Paul found himself in hardship all while giving his life wholly to the mission field. If then today you are facing a hardship, be willing to seek the Lord out for His reason for allowing such a hardship to come your way. Yes, it may be to correct your path away from sin, but it also may be for another reason. Be willing to as well to search out that same answer when it comes to other’s struggles in life and don’t immediately assume it’s because they are in deep sin. God’s ways are higher than our ways, and thankfully He welcomes our seeking out of His ways. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: What might be another reason someone goes through a hardship beyond just a consequence for their sin?
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Job 17 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me? Job 17:3 – As these chapters continue, we see a continuing of Job’s energy and hope being exhausted. In this chapter we see how he felt death was close to him, and help and justice seemed far from him. Here in verse three Job is now crying out to God. Job is acknowledging that nothing on earth can save and protect him. Job is clearly seeing he can’t rely on his friends to comfort and save him. Job is even seeing his own righteousness can’t save him. Job needed something greater than this world and greater than himself to rescue him, so he cried out to the God who is greater than all. We all will need to come to this same realization Job came to, hopefully though we don’t have to go through all that Job did to learn it. God is the only one that can save and restore. The world and its offerings can’t save us, nor can any person in our life. The security for our life comes in and through Jesus alone. Praise the Lord that we have a God great enough to save us! I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: If God truly is the only one that can rescue us, why do you think some people reject Him so fiercely?
Link To Full Chapter
https://www.esv.org/Job+17/
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Job 16 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you. I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain. Job 16:4-5 – Job is now responding back to his miserable comforters. He makes it known that if the roles were reversed, and they were the ones in such deep pain, he too could speak like they do. He could say condemning words, he could speak without learning about their situation, he could shake his head in disgust at them. Yet, he wouldn’t do that. Now that he has tasted this depth of hurt, he understands the value of using his mouth to strengthen those in pain and to use his words to make their pain less intense. This is a one of the precious things that can come out of our own hardship we walk through in life, a compassion for others in pain. When we’ve tasted the depth of pain this world can bring, we also gain an understanding of how precious an encouraging word is or how a loving, non-judgmental hug can be exactly what is needed. Whatever you longed for from others in your times of pain, be sure to give that out to others in their pain. No, you may not have been shown grace, love, or kind words like you should have, but that doesn’t mean we have the right to withhold it from others when they are in pain. Remember how God has shown grace and love towards us when we didn’t deserve it. Rather than letting the miserable comforters of your pain dictate how you love others in their pain, allow Jesus to be the example you follow. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: What has been the kindest thing someone has done for you when you’ve been in a hard time?
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Job 15 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty, running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins…Job 15:25-28 – Eliphaz, the companion of Job that is speaking in the chapter, is seeking to prove to Job that all his previous success in life was just an illusion covering the depth of his sin. While in our day fat is not something we necessarily desire, nor do we see it as a sign of success, in Job’s day it would have been. Fat on you meant that you must have an abundance of food and that you didn’t have to work out in the field. Here Eliphaz is saying your fat, your success, has covered your eyes Job and is hiding the sin that must be present in his life, and now that the “fat” is gone, we can all see that sin must have been present. Remember that much of what is said to Job doesn’t apply to Job’s situation, but it can apply to our story. “Fat” can cover our faces to the real sin hiding beneath. Whether in our life or someone else’s, we can see worldly success and assume God’s blessing that life. Yet this is not the message of scripture. We see many deep in sin who are deeply successful, and we see many who are deeply holy yet experiencing the worst of hardships. A lesson that we can takeaway from this passage is don’t assume that someone who is finding success is always following God. A church may look great from the outside, but have sin deep within it. A marriage may look good, but have deep wounds being covered up by sin. Investigate behind the fat, and allow your footsteps to follow the example of the holy and not just the successful. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: What is a situation that you know of that is outwardly successful, but you know is corrupt within?
Link To Full Chapter
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Job 14 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. Job 14:1-2 – Job is acknowledging the true breath of life that man is able to have in the grand picture. Life is short and life is hard, and this life will end someday. While Job is wondering why a grand God would pay attention to man whose life is so short in the timeline of eternity, let us praise the Lord that He does. Yes, He sees all our sin and pays close attention to them, but our God has also looked closely enough to see our need for Him. Praise God that He is willing to offer life and forgiveness to man whose days are so few and the life we can offer back to Him is so small in comparison to what He offers us. If today you have found life and forgiveness from the Lord, take some time today to life up your praise to Him. You, one of billions of people in the story of creation, is loved, seen, and wanted by the God of the universe. That’s amazing! And if you haven’t found life and forgiveness from the Lord, know it’s available to you today. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: How can you give thanks to the Lord for the life you have been given?
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Job 13 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face. Job 13:15 – This is a powerful verse spoken from the mouth of Job. Though he was innocent of any severe type of sin to provoke such action from the Lord, though he felt the Lord was coming down on him too hard, though he was receiving silence back from the Lord after all his cries…Job still voiced his hope in God. Though the Lord was crushing him and he had no idea why, Job continued to place his faith in the Lord. While voiced, we still see the pain and grief in words of Job here. Yes, his hope was in God, but the confusion and pain were also still present. Are you today in a situation much like Job, or know someone who is? Where pain is severe, but a wrong done to deserve such pain isn’t known. Where it feels like the Lord is coming down too hard and there is seemingly no response back to our cries of confusion? Here is where our faith in the Lord can take a firmer grounding. “God, I don’t know why this pain is here, but I will choose to still hope in you. I don’t understand and I don’t see, but my faith remains in you and I trust you.” Hard words to say in the pain, but these are the words that will carry you through the pain. Will the Lord remain the place of your hope even in seasons like Job’s? I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: Who else in scripture did God allow suffering in their story, but He still rescued and redeemed them as they continued to hope in Him?
Link To Full Chapter
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Job 12 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock. In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip. The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand. Job 12:4-6 – While receiving much advice and wisdom from his friends, Job reminds them that he is wise too. He knows the truths of God. He’s walked with God and knows the desire of God’s heart is for man to walk blameless in His sight. Yet right now Job feels like a fool, for all his beliefs are seemingly upside down. The righteous seem to be going unheard and punished, while the sinful seem to exist in peace and taste blessing. This too can be a heavy paradox we see and feel in our own story. Where our faithful lives seem to still be full of difficulty, but those not following Jesus seem to be doing just fine. We struggle with finances, yet they are making millions. The world sure seems to be having fun with the things we are told to stay away from. In this place, we need to find ourselves dwelling on the truth of Scripture. That God knows what is best, far beyond our understand can go. Also that God deeply loves us and His desire is our good. So when life seems to be favoring the sinful world rather than the faithful follower, remember who truly has God’s favor promised to them in the pages of scripture. Don’t allow the happenings of this world or the struggles you face dictate for you who God is, allow God in His world to do that for you. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: What has been a request the Lord didn’t answer quickly for you? Why might that be?
Link To Full Chapter
https://www.esv.org/Job+12/
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Job 11 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away. Job 11:16 – Job is in the worst pain he has ever experienced in his life after losing so much of what he loved and after having his body so deeply afflicted. The misery is real and agonizing for Job, it was all-consuming to his mind to the point that he wished he had never been born. Now his “friend” tells him that God has the power to change all this and it will cause him to forget all this current misery. While again not applying to Job’s situation, the message from Zophar has some scriptural truth for us today. Our God is able to take us from our deepest of hurts to a place where we look back on those hurts as not a time of God’s absence, but of God’s provision. For all of us, there has been seasons in our past that were really, really hard. They broke us, they were debilitating times, and they were seasons we felt the lowest in. Yet now through God’s help, we are beyond those seasons. We aren’t in that brokenness like we were, and we aren’t at that low spot any longer. Instead of seeing that past season as a time of absence and lack of care from the Lord, we see how God provided and got us through to where we are today. Know then today, if you are in a season of hard, God has the power to take this misery you are feeling and wash it away. He can provide, He can rescue, and He loves. He can take you to a place beyond this hard time where you look back on this season not as a time only of hurt, but as a time where God helped when you needed His help. Lean on your Savior and let God show you His power in your story. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: What was a season of tremendous hard in your past and what was a way the Lord provided in that time?
Link To Full Chapter
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Job 10 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
I will say to God, do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me. Job 10:2 – Job is asking the question many of us ask in our times or suffering…why God? We must remember as we read this book that while we know what has taken place in chapters 1-2 between God and Satan, Job doesn’t. He doesn’t understand why all this is happening. In a commentary on this passage, Spurgeon shares an example, that while not applying to Job, can certainly apply to us as to why we might be experiencing suffering. He stated that many houses in Russian were infested with mice, but you wouldn’t know it just by looking. Yet when a house is on fire, the mice come streaming out in hoards. So is it with some sins we are unaware of or trying to hide. Until the heat comes, we may not be aware of the sin in our story, or we may not be willing to confess it and bring it to the light until the pressure comes. God then will allow such pressure to come for He knows pressure from Him is better than the infection of sin. While certainly not the only reason God allows hardship, which is a main theme of the book of Job, it is a tool God will use in our sanctification process. If then hardship as come upon you, start looking for the “mice” scurrying out and end them so they can’t return back into the dark places of the house. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: Is there anything hidden in the shadows of your life that you’d like to bring to God before God brings it out?
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Job 9 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO
If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me. Job 9:30-31 – In our world today, especially post pandemic, we have learned some efficient ways to get ourselves clean. We have powerful soaps that can kill any germ that was even thinking about getting on us. We have pressure sprayers that can spray water so powerfully on things that it cuts metal. Here Job acknowledges that even the grandest ways of cleaning himself isn’t enough. Using snow, the purest of water they could think of, couldn’t clean himself from his sin. Using lye, the most powerful of soap they had, couldn’t clean himself of his sin either. If he tried to clean himself of his sin, even with the grandest of ways he could think of, he’d still be so spiritually dirty that even his own clothes wouldn’t want to hang on him. Such is our story with God today when it comes to the cleansing of our sin. No soap and water will cut it. No grand offerings to God from us will do it either. Only through the sacrifice of Jesus can we be clean and clothed in pure white garments. If your life has been about cleaning yourself up for God to win His affection, you’ve been scrubbing for nothing. Find yourself humbly coming before the God who does the washing for us. Know you can approach Him caked in sin, and He will embrace you and make you clean. He is the only one who can embrace a sinner, and instead of our dirt rubbing off on Him, His purity rubs off on us. I love you, but Jesus loves you more - Mac
Question To Ponder: Why do you think God made it impossible for us to clean ourselves up enough to be with Him?
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