Job 20 shows us Zophar speaking again. He is telling Job how evildoers will be treated by God and how none of this applies to his life. He continues to try and tell Job that he has lived a good life and should continue to seek God and His forgiveness.
Job speaks again in Job 21 telling how even the evil person does not go through the hard times that he has gone through. So, there must something that he has done to be cast out of God's love and sight.
Matthew 11 starts out with Jesus talking about John the Baptist. Jesus tells everyone that John is a prophet and was to come and prepare people for Jesus coming. He then continues talking about the cities were miracles have been performed and the people did not repent. He tells how they will be cast down on the day of judgment compared to those cities were the people did repent. I for one do not know how you could not see those amazing signs of the Lord and continue to not believe. The ending of 11 has learning that we are to seek him because it is the only way to get to the father. Jesus tells us that he is the only one to know the Father, so for us to know the Father we must know him.
Tomorrow's reading is:
Job 22, 23, 24 and Matthew 12:1 - 23
20. I thought this got a little gory at the end. I'm struck by how important being remembered must have been, they mention over and over how if you are evil you won't be remembered after death.
ReplyDelete21. This chapter was very interesting to me. Who hasn't looked at someone and wondered when they were going to get their due? Or maybe that's just me.
11. It's weird to me to think that other people had disciples. Curious how far that goes?
Anyway, Jesus says, "among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist." WOW that is some high praise. Shocked me a little bit.