Daily Devotional from Job 9-- Verses 20 & 33“Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse…There is no arbiter between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.”If, like Job, we regard ourselves as sinless and try to claim it before God, this only shows our self-righteousness. We would be sinning in saying so. Job cries out for an arbite...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Job 8--Verse 1-2“Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: ‘How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?’”Bildad to the rescue! At least, that’s what he thought as he spoke to Job. However, his words fall short of comfort; instead, they imply that Job was not as faithful to the Lord as everyone assumed. Bildad understood suffering to be a ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Job 7--Verse 1“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?” – JobSometimes, this is how life feels. Like we’re just running in a hamster wheel, working so hard but not getting anywhere. We feel worn down, run over, washed up. We start to think, “What’s the point?” “Why is it so hard?”Well friend, many have gone before and felt the ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Job 6--Verse 25 (NKJV)“How forceful are right words! But what does your arguing prove?”Do you know it’s possible to be in the right and dead wrong at the same time? You can use all the right words and still be off the mark. Here, Job acknowledges that what his friends are saying sounds good until you ask, ‘what’s the point?’ I think they had probably lost track.Sometimes we g...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Job 5--Verse 8“However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and would present my case to him.”Job was suffering through an incredible amount of grief, and this was a piece of advice given to him by his friend Eliphaz. On the surface, it sounds good and wise, because we SHOULD appeal to God. HOWEVER, we no longer need to present our case to him because Jesus is advocating on ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Job 4--Verses 3-5“Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.”From his strength, Job has ministered to many, encouraging and helping the weak get stronger. Now that he is...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Job 3--Verse 1“After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born…”Job 3 is a chapter full of sadness and sorrow. Job is expressing his emotions after he was hit with trauma after trauma. When we are walking through difficult situations, and our emotions are strong, it is okay to just sit in them. It’s okay to sit in the sorrow and name it and express it.Grief is r...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Job 2--Verse 13“And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.”Sometimes, when a loved one is hurting, this is all they need. They don’t need opinions, advice, rebuke, an assessment of the situation, or sayings that seem right but come across as trite in the moment. There are tim...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Job 1--Verse 20“Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshipped.”What is your response when hardship comes your way?Job could have reacted in a ton of different ways, but he chose to humble himself and worship God, blessing His name. This doesn’t mean Job didn’t mourn; in fact, tearing his clothes and shaving his head would have been...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Esther 10--Verse 2“and all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, to which the King advanced him, are they not written…”Mordecai had shown his integrity in warning the king of a plot to kill him. Thus, the king advanced him to high honor.  He acted in all the ways he knew to come to the aid of his people. He led them in fasting an...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Esther 9--Verse 22“…as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.”Here, Haman was trying to kill all of the Israelites! But God t...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Esther 8--Verse 2-3“And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews.”Haman, according to some schola...  Read More