AM Devotion /Prayer
God Gives Hope
Job 24:1, 9-12, 19-25; Psalm 55:16
Application: My prayer is that no matter what hard times I will face; to not give up Hope in Christ, To know That God is working everything out for my good. To not worry about anything but Pray about everything and even though I may not understand some of the challenges that I face, to Trust God. TRust God that He knows what He is doing, That God is soverign and God has not forsaken me.
1. Job's friends said he was suffering because he was being punished by God for his sins.
2. Job knew he had no sinned against God.
3. Job said there were many wicked people who never suffered or were punished by God in this life.
4. Job talked to his friends about the people who were so cruel to the poor.
5. Some snatched babies from families till loans were repaid.
6. They would not let their cooks eat the food they prepared and served; nor would they let the vineyard workers drink the juice they pressed from the grapes.
7. Those wicked people went unpunished.
8. Many lived their lives and died quiety. Their mothers would forget them after they died, but they did not suffer while there were alive and doing so much evil to so many people.
9. Job knew God was watching the wicked and would give them their final punishment.
10.. Though we may not see the wicked punished, we must always trust God and call upon Him. The Lord will save us!
Job 24:1The Message (MSG)
An Illusion of Security
24 1-12 “But if Judgment Day isn’t hidden from the Almighty,
why are we kept in the dark?
There are people out there getting by with murder—
stealing and lying and cheating.
They rip off the poor
and exploit the unfortunate,
Push the helpless into the ditch,
bully the weak so that they fear for their lives.
The poor, like stray dogs and cats,
scavenge for food in back alleys.
They sort through the garbage of the rich,
eke out survival on handouts.
Homeless, they shiver through cold nights on the street;
they’ve no place to lay their heads.
Exposed to the weather, wet and frozen,
they huddle in makeshift shelters.
Nursing mothers have their babies snatched from them;
the infants of the poor are kidnapped and sold.
They go about patched and threadbare;
even the hard workers go hungry.
No matter how backbreaking their labor,
they can never make ends meet.
People are dying right and left, groaning in torment.
The wretched cry out for help
and God does nothing, acts like nothing’s wrong!
Job 24:9-12The Message (MSG)
An Illusion of Security
24 1-12 “But if Judgment Day isn’t hidden from the Almighty,
why are we kept in the dark?
There are people out there getting by with murder—
stealing and lying and cheating.
They rip off the poor
and exploit the unfortunate,
Push the helpless into the ditch,
bully the weak so that they fear for their lives.
The poor, like stray dogs and cats,
scavenge for food in back alleys.
They sort through the garbage of the rich,
eke out survival on handouts.
Homeless, they shiver through cold nights on the street;
they’ve no place to lay their heads.
Exposed to the weather, wet and frozen,
they huddle in makeshift shelters.
Nursing mothers have their babies snatched from them;
the infants of the poor are kidnapped and sold.
They go about patched and threadbare;
even the hard workers go hungry.
No matter how backbreaking their labor,
they can never make ends meet.
People are dying right and left, groaning in torment.
The wretched cry out for help
and God does nothing, acts like nothing’s wrong!
Job 24:19-25The Message (MSG)
18-25 “They are scraps of wood floating on the water—
useless, cursed junk, good for nothing.
As surely as snow melts under the hot, summer sun,
sinners disappear in the grave.
The womb has forgotten them, worms have relished them—
nothing that is evil lasts.
Unscrupulous,
they prey on those less fortunate.
However much they strut and flex their muscles,
there’s nothing to them. They’re hollow.
They may have an illusion of security,
but God has his eye on them.
They may get their brief successes,
but then it’s over, nothing to show for it.
Like yesterday’s newspaper,
they’re used to wrap up the garbage.
You’re free to try to prove me a liar,
but you won’t be able to do it.”
Psalm 55:16The Message (MSG)
16-19 I call to God;
God will help me.
At dusk, dawn, and noon I sigh
deep sighs—he hears, he rescues.
My life is well and whole, secure
in the middle of danger
Even while thousands
are lined up against me.
God hears it all, and from his judge’s bench
puts them in their place.
But, set in their ways, they won’t change;
they pay him no mind.
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