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October 2025

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Luke 12:34).

This verse is not hard to understand, for what we value is what we think about. When we talk to others, it is not long before we know what they value. Many times I have tried to speak to people about where they were going to spend eternity, and sad to say, much of the time they simply changed the subject. They did not want to talk about what happens after death; most people wanted to talk about the things of this world, for that is what they valued.

What is most important in your life? Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, or are you not interested in that subject? A poem expresses it well—

To lose my wealth is much;
To lose my health is more;
To lose my soul is such a loss,
That no man can restore.

Thursday, October 30, 2025

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“But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?” (Luke 12:20).

If you read the parable connected with this verse, you will find that a wealthy farmer thought that he had enough stored in his barns for many years. However, God told him that his soul would be required of him that night; that is, he would die. Then who would get all those things that he had stored up?

Many people today are like that farmer. They make sure that they have everything to make themselves comfortable in this world, yet make no plans for what happens after death. God calls that kind of a person a fool, for we are in this world only a few years, but all eternity stretches ahead of us after death. It is much better to be rich toward God than to be rich in this world. Even as Christians we can go after the things of this world, and neglect the true riches. Everything we have in this world we must eventually leave behind, but spiritual riches are ours for all eternity.

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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“For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known” (Luke 12:2).

This is a very solemn verse, for it tells us that everything that has been done in secret shall eventually be brought to light. Last week in our area, a young man was killed in a car accident. It seems that another car came around a curve, and was driving in the wrong lane. The young man who was killed swerved to avoid a head-on collision, lost control of his vehicle, and landed in the ditch. He was killed instantly. The driver of the other car (who was at fault for being on the wrong side of the road) simply drove off. Since it happened on a country road in the middle of the night, no one saw him. Of course, the skid marks on the road made it clear to the police what had happened. The driver who was at fault may never be found out in this world, but God knows about it, and will bring it all to light.

However, this verse also works in the opposite direction. The immediate connection in Luke 12 is referring to evil things, but the verse also applies to good things. If you have done something for the Lord, perhaps no one knows about it, and you never got any thanks for it. Never mind; the Lord noticed it, and will reward you in a coming day.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

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“Go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow Me. And he was sad at that saying” (Mark 10:21-22).

The young man in this story thought he was doing everything right, for he was trying to keep the law of Moses. However, as the Lord Jesus said to him, he lacked one thing. He thought he could earn his way to eternal life by doing what was right, but he was not willing to give up everything and follow the Lord Jesus. His riches meant more to him than the Lord Jesus, and he went away very sad. He was also not willing to give his wealth away to the poor.

The Lord Jesus was proving to him that he could not be saved through his own efforts, no matter how hard he tried. The only way to be saved is to come to the Lord Jesus and accept Him as our Savior.

Monday, October 27, 2025

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“One thing thou lackest” (Mark 10:21).

I have recently been reading an interesting book about a sailing expedition in the year 1742. Several ships set out from England on a mission that would take them into the Pacific Ocean. That meant sailing across the Atlantic Ocean and around “Cape Horn,” the southern tip of South America. Cape Horn has some of the most dangerous seas in the world, so those outfitting the ships put in everything they thought the men might need—dried beef, hard biscuits, plenty of fresh water, guns, and many other things.

But several months into the voyage, many of the men began to get very sick. They lost weight, their teeth fell out, and their muscles shrivelled up. Some of the men died. No one knew what was wrong, but they were lacking one thing—vitamin C. Today we understand this. The men had “scurvy” because they had no fresh fruit or vegetables in their diet.

Eventually they were shipwrecked on a small island where hardly anything grew, but they found some wild celery and ate it because they were starving. Within a short time the disease of scurvy disappeared! Tomorrow we will talk about the spiritual meaning of today’s verse.

Sunday, October 26, 2025

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“For He [God the Father] hath made Him [the Lord Jesus] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Have you ever thought of what it meant for the Lord Jesus to be “made sin” for us? It means that God the Father dealt with the Lord Jesus as if He had committed the sins that we committed. The Lord Jesus took all the punishment for sin as if He had done all those wrong things. This was something you and I will never be able to understand. He has a nature that hates sin, yet He was made sin for us.

During those three hours of darkness on the cross, the Lord Jesus suffered more than you and I can ever imagine. But His love to God His Father, and His love to us, kept Him on that cross until all the judgment was exhausted. Have you ever thanked the Lord Jesus for what He has done?

Saturday, October 25, 2025

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“For without are…whosoever loveth and maketh a lie” (Revelation 22:15).

Usually, we talk about someone “telling” a lie. But do you know that you can tell a lie without speaking a word? Today in our Sunday school a man told us a story and showed us a picture. A long time ago (more than fifty years!) he was working with two other men on a small, barren island in the far north of Canada. A grizzly bear was on that island too, with no food, and he was looking for a good meal. In order to preserve their lives, it was necessary for one of the men to shoot the bear. The man who told the story showed us a picture of himself kneeling by the dead bear with a rifle in his hands. Then he asked the children to tell him who they thought had shot the bear. Of course they were all sure that he had done it! But the picture was “making a lie,” as our verse says. It was just a posed picture, as one of the other men had shot the bear.

God hates lying, no matter whether it is spoken with our lips, or just a picture that tells an untruthful story. Let us remember that God wants the truth, always.

Friday, October 24, 2025

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“But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her” (Luke 10:42).

Mary and Martha were two sisters who lived in the same home with their brother Lazarus. One day the Lord Jesus came for a visit, and they prepared a meal for the Lord. Martha was very anxious that everything would be done right, while Mary (who had been working with Martha) went and sat down at the feet of the Lord Jesus to hear His Word. Then Martha wanted the Lord Jesus to tell Mary to come back and help her.

Sometimes we can get so taken up with doing everything just right in our lives that we neglect to read God’s Word, and pray. We can get so busy with life that our spiritual life suffers. That is what was happening to Martha.

Instead of telling Mary to go and help Martha, the Lord Jesus reminds Martha that “one thing” was “needful.” In our busy world, we have to remember our priorities, and give the Lord first place in our lives. No longer can we listen to the Lord Jesus in person, but we can read His Word and meditate on it. Then we learn more of Him, and this will be ours for all eternity. Good food is important too, but it will last only for this life. What the Lord Jesus tells us through His Word is forever.

Thursday, October 23, 2025

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“After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also…therefore said He unto them…salute no man by the way” (Luke 10:1-2,4).

Here we see that the Lord Jesus sent out seventy of His disciples, to preach, and to heal the sick. He gave them instructions, and among their instructions they were told, “Salute no man by the way.” Does this mean that they were not to be polite or courteous, or speak to anyone they met on the way?

I do not believe that it means this. Rather, the Lord was telling them not to be “sidetracked” by anyone along the way. They were not to waste their time in idle conversation or visiting with those they might meet. Rather, they were to remember that they had been given work to do for the Lord, and they were to do it. When the Lord Jesus was only twelve years old, He said to His parents, “Wist ye not [do you not know] that I must be about My Father’s business”?

It should be the same with us. God has a work for each of us to do in this world, and we should be careful not to waste our time, but rather to do what the Lord has entrusted to us.

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

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“Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things” (Proverbs 28:5).

Everyone in this world has a conscience that enables us to know right from wrong. However, our conscience is like our eyes; we need light for them to work properly. A good pair of eyes does not help us in a very dark room, and if our conscience is not guided by the Word of God, we will not understand right and wrong properly. Now that many people in Western countries have given up the Bible, they do not have a proper sense of right and wrong, and sometimes seem to lack common sense.

Man cannot live rightly without his Creator, and only those who know the Lord, and read His Word, can have a right sense of right and wrong. That is why we see so many wrong judgments being made in this world, and why men seem so unable to think properly. It is because their consciences are not enlightened by God’s Word.

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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“He that is least among you, the same shall be great” (Luke 9:48).

We saw yesterday that is wrong for us to want to “be somebody;” that is, we should not want to be somebody important. Here in our verse today the Lord Jesus tells us how to be truly great. True greatness lies in being the least among others, for then we become more like the Lord Jesus.

The Lord Jesus was the only man who had a right to be great, for He is the Son of God. He created this world, and upholds “all things by the word of His power.” (See if you can find the reference for this verse too.) But He voluntarily took the lowest place in this world, and went all the way to Calvary’s cross.

If you think for a moment about those Christians whom you like and admire the most, are they proud people who want to be important? No, they are almost surely those who take a low place, and who want to serve the Lord, and serve others.

Monday, October 20, 2025

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“The Son of Man shall be delivered into the hands of men. But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them…Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest” (Luke 9:44-46).

The disciples were expecting a glorious earthly kingdom to be set up, but the Lord Jesus had to remind them that before the kingdom could be set up, He would have to go to the cross. As we see in our verses for today, the disciples could not understand this; it was “hid from them.” But then we read in the next verse that they were having a discussion about which of them should be greatest.

This was one of the reasons why they could not understand. They were thinking about themselves, and not about the Lord Jesus. Here He was, humbling Himself and going to the cross, while they disputed about who should be greatest.

Sometimes we have this problem too. If we are wanting “to be somebody,” as the saying goes, we are not thinking in the right way. Pride in ourselves is always wrong, and it can make it difficult for us to understand God’s thoughts. The Lord Jesus was “meek and lowly in heart,” and we are called to be like Him. See if you can find the place where it tells us that the Lord Jesus was “meek and lowly in heart.”

Sunday, October 19, 2025

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“His visage was so marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men” (Isaiah 52:14).

When the Lord Jesus suffered on the cross for sin, it tells us here that His face was marred more than any man, and His form (body) more than the sons of men. What does that mean? We know that the Jewish leaders punched him in the face, and that Pilate scourged Him. The soldiers placed a crown of thorns on His head, and nailed Him to the cross. However, we know too that many people have had their bodies seriously injured from car accidents, industrial accidents, attacks by wild animals, etc. Does this verse mean that the face and body of the Lord Jesus were injured more than any other person? I believe the thought goes deeper than that.

The Hebrew word for “marred” is used only one other time in the Bible, and there it is translated “corruption,” for this is one of the meanings of the word. I believe that this meaning shows us what the word means in our verse today. It was not only the physical suffering that the Lord Jesus felt so much, terrible though it was. Rather it was His being made sin for us, and bearing our sins in His body during the three hours of darkness, that made His face and His body marred more than any man. He was made to be corruption for our sakes. How this ought to touch our hearts!

Saturday, October 18, 2025

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“Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor” (Ephesians 5:2).

Today we have a verse that shows us the same thing as we had yesterday, that Christ’s sacrifice on the cross was a sweet-smelling savor to God. Why did it have such a sweet smell to God? It was because of the perfect obedience of the Lord Jesus to the will of His Father. Every father in this world knows how much it means to him to have an obedient child, and especially if he asks that child to do something that is very unpleasant. Think of how much it meant to God the Father to see His beloved Son go willingly to Calvary’s cross, and bear the judgment for sin! It was indeed a sweet smell to God.

In the same way we can be a sweet savor to God, if we obey His command to walk in love with one another. In this way we are “followers of God,” as it says in verse one of Ephesians 5. It means a great deal to God our Father when we obey His commands.

Friday, October 17, 2025

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“Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard…and anointed the feet of Jesus…and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment” (John 12:3).

Yesterday we saw that when the holiness of God was displayed in the temple, the “house was filled with smoke.” The smoke was a warning to man that God could not be directly approached in those days, and that a sacrifice was needed. Here we find that another smell filled a house—the house where Mary, Martha, and Lazarus lived in a town called Bethany.

This was a different kind of smell—an odor that people would love to smell. It was the smell of a precious ointment that was poured onto the feet of the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus was a guest in the house, and Mary took this opportunity to honor Him in this way. Mary understood clearly that the Lord Jesus needed to go to the cross, and she came ahead of time to anoint his feet as a token of her love for Him. This smell was a picture of what the work of Christ is to God; it is a sweet smell, for our Lord Jesus was perfectly obedient to His Father’s will, even though this obedience took Him all the way to the cross. We will see another verse about this tomorrow.

Thursday, October 16, 2025

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“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts…and the house was filled with smoke” (Isaiah 6:3-4).

We had this verse before us back in July, but I want to look at it again, and compare it with another verse which we will see tomorrow. As we said back in July, where there is smoke there is fire, and the smoke speaks of a warning to man of the judgment of God. Fire in the Bible often speaks of judgment, and the smoke is a picture of God’s warning about it. It was a warning to Isaiah, away back, hundreds of years before the Lord Jesus Christ was born.

You and I would not want to be in a house that was filled with smoke. It irritates our eyes, and it tells us that there is a fire somewhere in the house. We want to get out of that house, and of course find out where the fire is. In our verses today, the smoke is connected with the holiness of the Lord.

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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“Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not” (Galatians 6:9).

It is a wonderful privilege to work for the Lord while we are here in this world, and to be able to do His will. However, when things do not go very well, we can easily become discouraged. Perhaps we do not see many results from our work for the Lord, and we may wonder if it is all worthwhile. But our verse for today shows us that we will see results, if we do not give up.

Yesterday I had a phone call from a friend with whom I had gone to medical school. I had not seen him for some years, as he lives in southern U.S.A. It was about 60 years ago that I first spoke to him about being saved, and all through our years in university I reminded him that he needed to come to Christ. Sadly, there was no response, although we remained good friends. However, the Lord was working, and last night he told me that just a little while ago, he had accepted Christ as his Savior. He is now 79 years old.

Needless to say, I told him that not only had he made my day, but that he had made my year! Let us remember not to give up or become discouraged, for we shall reap, as our verse says.

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

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“Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing” (2 Timothy 4:8).

On Saturday we looked at an old English word—“hitherto.” Today in our verse we have another old English word—“henceforth.” It is the opposite of the word hitherto, for it means “from now on,” or “in the future.”

On Saturday we saw that as Christians, we can look back and remember how the Lord looked after us. In today’s verse, we can look forward, along with the Apostle Paul, and know that there will be a crown for those who love the Lord’s appearing.

This world is in a mess right now, and things are getting worse, not better. Only when the Lord comes back in power and glory will there be real peace, with no war. Best of all, the Lord Jesus will have His rightful place. By that time, all true believers will be with the Lord Jesus in heaven.

Monday, October 13, 2025

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“Hitherto hath the Lord helped us” (1 Samuel 7:12).

The word hitherto is an old English word that simply means “up until now.” If we know the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, and have walked with Him, we can all say that up until now the Lord has helped us. Perhaps we have had some hard times in our life, but as we saw with Job, we learn more from going through difficulties than we do when everything goes smoothly. We learn to rely on the Lord more, and we learn more of His love and grace.

In the chapter where today’s verse is found, the Israelites were in a tough spot, for the Philistines had come up against them, and they did not have the power in themselves to fight with them. But when they confessed their sin, the Lord came in and gave Israel the victory. Then the prophet Samuel could say, “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.”

Sunday, October 12, 2025

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“He took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray… And, behold, there talked with Him [the Lord Jesus] two men, which were Moses and Elias: who appeared in glory, and spake of His decease which He should accomplish at Jerusalem” (Luke 9:28,30-31).

When the Lord Jesus went up on the mount of transfiguration, He took Peter, John and James with Him. As He appeared in His glory, Moses and Elijah appeared too. Both of those men had left this world hundreds of years before—Moses through death, and Elijah by being caught up by a whirlwind into heaven without dying.

It is noteworthy what they talked about as they were there. Instead of talking about the wonderful glory of the Lord Jesus, and the joy of being there on the mountain with Him, they talked about His death that was shortly going to happen in Jerusalem. We might wonder why they did that, but they realized that all blessing, whether on earth or in heaven, had to come through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus.

On this the Lord’s day, are you and I thinking about the suffering and death of the Lord Jesus, or are we thinking about a lot of other things? The Lord Jesus has asked us to remember Him, and values it very much if we think about Him, not only today, but every day.

Saturday, October 11, 2025

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“And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also, the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before” (Job 42:10).

“Pray for them which despitefully use you” (Matthew 5:44).

As Elihu had said to Job, God desired only his blessing, despite all the difficulties that He passed him through. At the end of the trial, Job had twice as much as he had before. Once Job had judged his pride and realized that any goodness in him was because of God’s grace, God gave him a marvelous blessing.

However, there was something that Job did first; he prayed for his friends. At first Job was angry with his friends for accusing him falsely, but then he got beyond that, and prayed for them. The Lord Jesus also taught the people to pray for those who used them despitefully. (The word “despitefully” means to treat someone badly). This is good for us to remember, for just as God desires our blessing, so we should want blessing for others, even those who annoy or hurt us.

Friday, October 10, 2025

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“Then Job answered the Lord, and said, behold I am vile…I will lay my hand upon my mouth” (Job 40:3-4).

At first, when all the trouble came upon Job, he was ready to find fault with God, for Job claimed to be a good man. However, he was taking the credit for his goodness, when it was all the work of the grace of God in his soul. But when Elihu, and then the Lord Himself, spoke to Job, he began to realize that he had no right to find fault with God. Then his reaction was to say, “I am vile.”

All this time Job was a believer; he was not a heathen. But, like some Christians, he was ready to say that his goodness came from within himself. This is wrong, for naturally we are all sinners. Any goodness in us is because God has worked in our hearts to believe. Let us remember this.

If we see unbelievers behaving in a bad way, let us remember that our own natural hearts are no better. Left to ourselves, we would behave badly too.

Thursday, October 9, 2025

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“Surely it is meet [right] to be said unto God…that which I see not teach Thou me” (Job 34:31-32).

Sometimes we do not immediately understand what God is doing in our lives. What should we do when this happens? Elihu gives us the answer—the same answer he gave to Job. The right thing to do is to ask the Lord to teach us what we do not understand. If we ask the Lord, He will always show us the lesson He is seeking to teach us.

The answer may not come right away, but He loves us, and wants us to get the blessing out of what He is doing in our lives. Let us not think that God is not treating us right, but rather let us recognize that He always wants to do us good. We learn more through difficult times in our lives than if everything is going well.

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

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“Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. Therefore I said…I also will shew mine opinion” (Job 32:9-10).

Yesterday we spoke about the respect that is due to those who are older than we are, and who usually have more knowledge and experience than we do. However, as our verse for today shows us, this is not always so. Job’s friends really were his friends, and they thought that they were helping him. However, they had the wrong idea about what was happening to Job, and they made things worse for him, rather than helping him.

As we saw yesterday, Elihu was a younger man, but he had the mind of the Lord, and was able to be a help to both Job and his three friends. He understood that all difficulties in our lives are not punishment from the Lord, but may be for other reasons. He did not know why the Lord was allowing such awful problems in Job’s life, but he knew that it was wrong to assume that it was because Job was a wicked man.

All this is a good lesson to some of us older ones, for we are not always right. When we have said something, and younger ones ask questions, it is good for us to listen to them. A number of times in my life someone younger than I has pointed something out to me, and I had to realize that he was right, and I was wrong.

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

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“Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they [Job and his three friends] were elder than he…I [Elihu] said, days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom” (Job 32:4-5,7).

Elihu was a younger man, but he had listened to all that Job and his friends had to say. He saw the fault in all of them, but he wisely waited until they had spoken, because they were older. This was right, for older ones usually have more knowledge, and definitely more experience, than young people.

This is a very good lesson for all of us who are younger to learn. In the modern world, it is sad to see many younger people acting in a disrespectful way towards older ones, and thinking that their knowledge and opinions are just as good as those of their elders. We should be willing to listen to older ones, and allow them to speak first. The older ones may be wrong, but there is a right way and a wrong way to present our thoughts to them. We should always show proper respect.

Monday, October 6, 2025

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“I am afflicted and ready to die from My youth up…Thy fierce wrath goeth over Me” (Psalm 88:15-16).

There are a number of prophesies about the suffering and death of the Lord Jesus in the Old Testament, and here is one of them. Right from the time He was born into this world, the Lord Jesus knew that He was going to the cross, to suffer and to die. Then, while on the cross, He could say that God’s fierce wrath was going over Him. Surely the Lord Jesus felt the sufferings He experienced from the hands of man, but it was the suffering for sin, at the hands of God, that He felt much more. All of God’s anger against sin was placed upon the Lord Jesus during the last three hours of darkness on the cross. The Spirit of God led the writer of this psalm to say these things hundreds of years before the Lord Jesus suffered for sin on the cross.

Yes, the Lord Jesus suffered all this, in order that you and I might be saved. Have you thanked Him for all that He did for you?

Sunday, October 5, 2025

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“I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God” (Job 19:25-26).

Job lived hundreds of years before the Lord Jesus came into the world, and he did not know as much as you and I know now, for the New Testament had not been written in Job’s day. However, he had a great deal of light from God. He knew that there was a Redeemer who would come, and that one day that same Redeemer would stand upon the earth.

Also, Job knew about resurrection, and he knew that one day, in the resurrection, he would see God. All this was revealed to a man who lived way back in the time of Abraham. All this is wonderful, but how much more you and I know, in this day of God’s grace! We know about a resurrection of believers, and that it will occur at a different time than the resurrection of unbelievers. We also know that when those believers who have died will be raised again, they will have glorified bodies. We know too that before the Lord Jesus comes to set up His kingdom, He will come to take us home to be with Himself. You and I live at a wonderful time in this world’s history!

Saturday, October 4, 2025

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“God…which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south” (Job 9:2,9).

“Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” (Job 38:31).

Just think! You and I today can look at the same constellations of stars that Job looked at! These constellations are mentioned twice in the book of Job. On the first occasion, Job mentions them. The second time, God Himself challenges Job as to whether he had any influence over the stars, and uses the same names that men had given those stars. Job had previously thought he was able to argue with God, and even accuse God of being unjust. This was serious, but the Lord gradually worked with Job, and eventually he understood what God was doing. But first of all Job had to be humbled, and deal with his pride.

Sometimes we too may think we can find fault with what God is doing, and I have known some Christians who did this. Of course it made them very unhappy, for God is always just, but He does not have to give account to you and me. More than this, everything He does in our lives is for our blessing. Let us remember that.

Friday, October 3, 2025

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“Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?” (Job 4:7).

Job had three friends, and all three of them tried to be a help to Job, when all these things happened to him. However, they did not understand what God was doing, and they told Job that he must be a wicked man, for God to have allowed all these troubles in his life. Our verse today was said to him by one of his friends. Sadly, they did not realize that God sometimes allows trouble in the lives of good people. It is not necessarily punishment, but it is to teach them something. There are many reasons why God may allow trouble in our lives, and when it happens, we should go to Him and ask Him why He allowed it.

Job’s friends were no real help to him, even though they sometimes said things that were true. But they jumped to conclusions and falsely accused Job.

This is a good lesson to us, for if someone is in trouble, let us first of all show some sympathy, and not jump to a conclusion as to why it happened.

Thursday, October 2, 2025

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“Let the day perish wherein I was born” (Job 3:3).

“Woe unto that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It had been good for that man if he had not been born” (Matthew 26:24).

Job did not always do what was right. When he did start to speak, after he had lost his wealth, his children, and his health, he said that he wished he had never been born. He felt so miserable that he wished he had never come into the world. There is one man in the Bible about whom it was definitely said that it would have been good if he were not born, and that was Judas Iscariot, who betrayed the Lord Jesus.

If we know the Lord, and have accepted the Lord Jesus as our Savior, we will spend an eternity with Him in heaven. It is worth any amount of suffering to be able to have this at the end of our life down here. There is no doubt that Judas went into a lost eternity, and it would definitely have been better if he had not been born. But we will see Job in heaven; he did not need to wish he had never been born.

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

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“In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly” (Job 1:22).

“In all this did not Job sin with his lips” (Job 2:10).

Have you ever had a lot of bad things happen to you in a short time? When those bad things happened to you, did you sometimes feel angry that the Lord had allowed those things to happen? Were you sometimes tempted to say something bad?

Job had some awful things happen to him. First he lost all his wealth and all his children, and then got so sick that no matter what he did, he was in pain. You can read about all this in the first two chapters of Job. I am sure that none of us ever had anything like that happen to us.

Yet Job did not say anything bad, even when his wife told him to “curse God, and die.” That is often the way unbelievers act, when serious trouble comes into their lives. Maybe you have heard unsaved people swear when something bad happened to them. But Job did not do anything like that; he accepted it all from the Lord. That is a good lesson for us, for just as the Lord allowed it all for Job’s good, so He allows everything in our lives for our good.