Devotions

“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven, looking [down even] on the highest stars? Yet you say, What does God know? Can He see through thick darkness to judge?”
Job 22:12-13 CJB

The answer here is God sees all and knows all, so no matter what is going on, good or bad, the LORD knows and He’s gonna deal with it!

“Adonai looks out from heaven; He sees every human being; from the place where He lives He watches everyone living on earth, He fashioned the hearts of them all and understands all they do.”
Psalm 33:13-15 CJB

The LORD made us and He knows us, understanding all that we do! He also knows and sees all the evil and wickedness of the world and will deal with it!

“The LORD is not slow in keeping His promises, as some people think of slowness; on the contrary, He is patient with you; for it is not His purpose that anyone should be destroyed, but that everyone should turn from His sins.”
2 Peter 3:9 CJB

Today, be encouraged that no matter how evil and wicked the world is, know that the LORD has it all covered and that includes us!
May your day be blessed!

“Yet to God they said, Leave us alone! We don’t want to know about Your ways.”
Job 21:14 CJB

Sadly, this what the world says to God. What is even more grievous is some professing believers do the same! How? By diminishing God’s instructions found in His word!

“What is Shaddai (The Almighty), that we should serve Him? What do we gain if we pray to Him?”
Job 21:15 CJB

We are always going to be better off when we obey the LORD, calling on Him for answers and instructions!

“Can anyone teach God knowledge? After all, He judges those who are on high.”
Job 21:22 CJB

We can’t and shouldn’t even try to tell the LORD what to do. Realize He will judge those who try!
Have a blessed day standing and relying on the LORD!

“Don’t you know that ever since time began, ever since humans were placed on earth, that the triumph of the wicked is always short-lived, and the joy of the ungodly is gone in a moment?
Job 20:4-5 CJB

Here is some truth, ungodly wicked people don’t last. They always come to a end!

“There is no shalom (peace), says my God, for the wicked.”
Isaiah 57:21 CJB

Evil, godless people will never succeed or get away with their wicked deeds! God will deal with them and He will deal with us also if we try to get away with sin too!

“His pride may mount to the heavens, his head may touch the clouds; but he will vanish completely, like his own dung-those who used to see him will ask, ‘Where is he?'”
Job 20:6-7 CJB

Even though we see great amounts of evil and wicked things happening around us, know this, God will deal with it for sure!
May your day be richly blessed!

“But I know my Redeemer lives, that in the end He will rise on the dust; so that my skin has been destroyed, then even without my flesh, I will see God.”
Job 19:25-26 CJB

Understand there is nothing this world can throw against us that can separate us from the LORD. Even when our flesh is destroyed, the LORD will be with us!

“For now we see obscurely in a mirror, but then it will be face to face. Now I know partly; then I will know fully, just as God has fully known me.”
1 Corinthians 13:12 CJB

The good news for us is no matter how bad it gets, we will soon be with the LORD for all eternity!

“Dear friends, we are God’s children now; and it has not yet been made clear what will become . We do know that when He appears, we will be like Him; because we will see Him as He really is.”
1 John 3:2 CJB

Today, no matter what is going on around us, know our Redeemer lives and all things will be made clear and right.
Have a blessed day in Him!

“Tell the people of Israel, In the seventh month, the first of the month is to be for you a day of complete rest for remembering, a holy convocation announced with blasts on the shofar.”
Leviticus 23:24 CJB

This verse speaks of Rosh HaShanah (New Year) not the physical New Year but the spiritual New Year! The Idea here is that when the Shofar sounds it gives us a moment that we get to reset our lives, out with the bad and in with the good! One day it will be a permanent reset, never to go back to the old!

“On the morning of the third day, there was thunder, lightening and a thick cloud on the mountain. Then s shofar blast sounded so loudly that all the people in the camp trembled.”
Exodus 19:13 CJB

We all should take a good look at ourselves, especially the bad stuff and make the necessary changes to do what’s right! A day to seek the LORD!

“When you seek Me, you will find Me, provided you seek for Me wholeheartedly.”
Jeremiah 29:13 CJB

Today, is a good day to reset ourselves and seek the LORD to do better.
Shabbat Shalom.
Shanah Tova!