Daily Reading // Job 21-22
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S // SCRIPTURE
Select a verse from today’s reading
Job 21:7 (NKJV) Why do the wicked live and become old, Yes, become mighty in power?
O // OBSERVATION
Why did this verse get your attention? Make a simple observation from the text
The book of Job centers around the oldest question known to man, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” But here Job asks a companion question that is just as intriguing, “Why do good things happen to bad people?”
A good person, like Job, experiences his own suffering and it is only intensified by seeing wicked people without a care in the world. They’re thriving, in fact. That is just as perplexing. What’s going on?
A // APPLICATION
How can I apply this to my life today?
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things unseen.” Faith supplies what our natural senses cannot.
Things don’t make sense on this side of heaven. There is a gap. It’s the faith gap. When there is a gap between what my eyes and my mind tell me and what I know to be true through God’s word, how do I fill that gap? Is it with anger, mistrust, suspicion and disbelief toward God? Or do I choose to fill that gap with faith.
Faith gaps exist all around. Some are bigger than others. Some are cavernous. There is not a faith gap anywhere that can’t be filled with a sufficient amount of faith.
Without faith gaps, how would I use my faith? It would have no use at all. If I could see, know and understand everything my faith is useless.
I’m thankful for my faith gaps.
P // PRAYER
Express yourself in prayer
Jesus, One day I will know fully even as I am fully known. Until then I fill every gap with faith. Amen.
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