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Day 119 - Elihu

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https://allsoulsaremine.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/elusive-elihu-and-job-greatest-message-in-the-bible-part-1/ My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year | Come join us at anytime! Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 4/30/2019     Day 119 Job 32:1 – 37:24 Reflection | Today Elihu - Job’s younger friend - speaks - friends are bad; Job is too self righteous - shift in that Elihu holds to the traditions but also Is willing to open the door to questioning, or rejection, of tradition. (Collins, Introduction …, the NRSV Daily Bible) Background Background by Center of Biblical Studies. Background by Chabad.org | +++ Meditation/Contemplate: How do you understand God in good and bad times? How do we study about God without losing the faith we have in God? Prayer: God, you speak to me in silence, in your creation, but mostly through Your Word and Spirit. Make me a patient, humble, and loving listener to you and ...

Day 29 - Thursday after the Third Sunday after the Epiphany

Read | Day 29 | January 29 | Job 35:1 – 37:24 Reading | Elihu = Job, you are arrogant, God is mighty, why should God hear you when you are like this?, God is exalted in God's power, stop and consider the wonders of God, God is beyond your reach - exalted in power, you should revere God. Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 |  Click here  | pp. 110 - 113 Next | Day 30 | January 30 |Job 38:1 – 40:5 +++ For Mission Almighty and everlasting God,  by whose Spirit the whole body of your faithful people  is governed and sanctified:  Receive our supplications and prayers  which we offer before you for  all members of your holy Church,  that in their vocation and ministry  they may truly and devoutly serve you;  through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Source | Mission St Clare | Daily Office in English | Book of Common Prayer | Click here for today

Day 28 - Wednesday after the Third Sunday after the Epiphany

Read  | Day 29 | January 29 | Job 35:1 – 37:24 Dates |  Dates |2200 BC - 1800 BC | Could have occurred as late as the Exile (600 BC - 582 BC withe the deportations) Reading  | Elihu = Answers Job; God does not listen to complaints; God's justice is beyond human understanding; God does great things; Open your ears and consider God's miracles; Can you do this? Source | God’s Word Translation | Baker, Grand Rapids, Pure Michigan | 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8010-1360-7 |  Click here  find a place to purchase | p. 446 - 449 Next  | Day 30 | January 30 | Job 38:1 – 40:5 +++ The Psalms Psalm 119:49-56 or  Coverdale Zayin  49 Remember your word to your servant, * because you have given me hope. 50 This is my comfort in my trouble, * that your promise gives me life. 51 The proud have derided me cruelly, * but I have not turned from your law. 52 When I remember your judgments of old, * O LORD, I take great confort. 53 I a...