I never noticed until this reading that Joseph’s father was named Jacob. I thought it was cool that those are the only names that repeat and that they begin and end the story.
we do not get wisdom from the amount of years we have experienced but instead from the Lord. It is not OK to make people feel less than you just because they are younger. Anyone can do great things through Jesus Christ, no matter how young or old
Elihu was of the family Ram.. which is also a part of Joseph’s lineage. I love to see the small (and big) ways God ties everything together so neatly❣️
29-30“This is the way God works.
Over and over again
He pulls our souls back from certain destruction
so we’ll see the light — and live in the light!
I love how God continues to pull us out of our darkness and into the light time and time again. I pray that we’ll be more open to the circumstances that God is trying to lead us through
I’m really enjoying seeing such a full picture of the Bible by reading more than I have in this amount of time, and reading both OT and NT every day. Having the history of Genesis fresh in my mind while reading the genealogy of Christ, etc. You can see so clearly how the thread of Salvation ties the entire story of the Bible together.
It is so enjoyable to read these passages were men were patient and followed the Lord, trusting him to carry them through difficult situations. In Job, Elihu came to Job’s defense against the older men, perhaps being a glimmer of hope in a thus far trying life for Job. In Matthew, Joseph listens to God and supports Mary as his wife, even though the situation was confusing and frustrating. God is so good.
I agree! God has the most beautiful way of intervening and molding our lives to accomplish His glory. It’s hard for us to ever see through the thick of it all, but His ways are truly higher than our ways!
I love in this passage of Job Elihu isn’t afraid to call out the three other men for their ignorance. Our culture reveres the older generation as wise because of their life experience but all throughout the Bible God makes it clear wisdom comes from God. We shouldn’t always dismiss what is said from someone younger than us. Sometimes kids are so much wiser than we are
I actually read the names of Jesus’ family tree aloud this time to keep myself in the text. My mind often just skips over the lists of names I can barely read in the Bible!
I DO have a question though: the family tree leads to Joseph to whom Jesus is NOT a blood relation of. I’ve never thought about it until now! Shouldn’t it be Mary’s lineage traced here??
I see what you’re saying but the way I look at it is a father is more than just biological. It’s the love and care you give a child. God picked Joseph to be Jesus earthly father. It would be interesting to see Mary’s line. Maybe she had an ancestor come from David. Marrying your cousin was pretty standard.
Matt 1:1 is fulfilling what the Lord said in Genesis 12:1-3 so that is key. Also Jer 23:5-6 is fulfilled in Matt 1:1 where is says he would be from the line of David.
So my pastor actually touched on this a little bit yesterday and the lineage can create a story of redemption. While Joseph is not biologically related to Jesus, he was still chosen to care for him in his childhood, so seeing where he came from can still be valuable. One example of this from this lineage that was shared by my pastor involves Ruth. We know Ruth was an amazing woman, but she was a Moabite. Looking back a few weeks to Genesis 19, the Moabite line was conceived by Lot and his oldest daughter after fleeing Sodom. That terrible beginning to an entire people, who were a nuisance to Israel for so long, was still redeemed through Ruth and led to the lineage of the man who was chosen to raise Jesus and arguably save him and Mary as he could have had her stoned while pregnant with the Savior.
So the reason which I understand is that the bloodline is through Joseph, however we are all fallen from sin from our fathers fathers since Adam and Eve. So Jesus was not bound by the sin we were bound to through Adam, he is born of God. That’s why He was perfect and sinless and to be this he couldn’t be born by an earthy father but only our heavenly one.
I love Joseph’s spirit. Although he at first thought Mary had hurt him, he didn’t retaliate or deal with her harshly. That should be a lesson to me. People will fail and hurt me, sometimes founded, sometimes not. I should give them the benefit of the doubt and still allow them to be human, not presume what really happened and cut them off, choose kindness and be willing to hear them out.
Joseph had to have been at least a little skeptic of Mary, the woman he knew and loved. All the signs pointed to foul play on her part, & the whole town would viciously discuss their situation in whispers. But when they were wed and the baby came, a boy, just as his dream foretold, what could he say? What could he do but believe? “And he called his name Jesus”, which I believe was an act of faith and acceptance of God’s plan, regardless of the seemingly sketchy situation!
I was just sitting here wondering why, if technically Joseph didn’t contribute to Jesus’ DNA, why do we say Jesus was of that lineage when He should be of Mary’s family line? But this example of selfless love and sacrifice, paramount to the plan of God, settles that question for me. Jesus is of the lineage of Joseph because Joseph accepted God’s plan and believed, thusly fulfilling the lineage of Christ we know today. Pretty amazing stuff!
From what I have read by naming Jesus Joseph officially adopted him as a son and therefore Jesus became part of the royal lineage of David. This is a parallel to how we are adopted by God and become part of His royal line- heirs with Christ.
I love the name Immanuel, God with us. It is so comforting to know that God was with us physically through Jesus, currently through the Spirit, and will be with us when He returns. Dietrich Bonhoeffer commented on this truth of God with us: “God lives, lives in the world, lives for the world, lends it meaning and life, makes it our home, gives our own life a relationship to eternity and a closeness to God…” Praises!
Such a great reading. I find it difficult to know, however, who is speaking correctly and wisely and who is speaking foolishly. Can’t wait to get to the end to hear God speak about it. Has inspired me to do some further study into Job!! Amazingly confusing but powerful story of the thought process we go through when we are suffering – it was uncomfortably correct!
I know, Bethany! Same here. My husband is reading Job too, and he’s always telling me when people are being sarcastic because I can’t tell! But yes, a fascinating story with so much truth about who God is laced throughout. Glad I’m not the only one who can’t tell the context sometimes :))
I’m right there with you Emily! Prayers that we can make progress and get back on track together! Although there is nothing wrong with taking your time and dwelling diligently in his word:)
The homily during Mass this afternoon was about suffering. I was pleased when the priest started talking about Job (hey I’m reading that one!) The line that stuck out to me most was when my priest said “Doubt is not a lack of faith. God does not become angry that we doubt. Faith is overcoming that doubt that we have.” Powerful message today.
Wow Nikki. Thank you so much for sharing. That same line is just what I needed to hear. What a beautiful thing to think that doubt is not an immediate condemnation but instead an instrument to grow our faith even more. God is able to use every moment to teach and bring us closer.
This reading seemed rather bland to me today but the idea that doubt is not a lack of faith is what I needed. Thank you again for sharing.
I love that, Niki! “God does not become angry that we doubt.” Such a profound message, one that I try and teach to my brothers/sisters in the faith. Thank you for sharing.
32 If you have anything to say, answer me;
speak up, for I want to vindicate you.
33 But if not, then listen to me;
be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”
I have been studying the word vindication and vindicate this week. It means : to show that (someone) should not be blamed for a crime, mistake, etc. : to show that (someone) is not guilty
: to show that (someone or something that has been criticized or doubted) is correct, true, or reasonable
Elihu is not speaking down to Job but is rather speaking face to face level with him. Not addressing his problem but that he wants to show how Job is not at fault and not guilty of these sins that the others were placing onto Job. He is looking at Job’s relationship with God not his possible sins.
I love Job 33:27. I have sinned. I have perverted what is right. And I didn’t get what I deserve. The “breath of the Almighty” in youth who love. Speaking to Job’s relationship with God not to his overwhelming pain.
I LOVE how Elihu gives us young women confidencw that God can and will use whoever He chooses, regardless of age. It’s fine time that we stop thinking we are yoo young to follow Christ or too young to speak about what we know to be true. If God is at the center, we must be bold in Him.
I completely agree! Though, Elihu’s boldness was more of an encouragement to be humble. He gave credit to The Lord’s spirit who was in him that made him wise, not his anger that drove him to his boldness. For if he was filled with the Spirit, then I’m sure that humility, patience and the other fruits of the Spirit filled him as well! This passage was just a reminder for me that as young women, our wisdom to be outspoken in the Lord must come from a place of humility.
OT ends with a desperate need of hope. NT opens with the promise of a Savior. Presents Him as The Hope. Jesus because “He will save His people from their sin”
David and Bathsheba were married when they had Solomon. Their first child who died I believe was the one you’re referring to…”Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her. So she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Now the LORD loved him, and He sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet: So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.” (II Samuel 12:24-25 NKJV)
I’m loving this more and more as we go through this throughout the year! It’s only February too!As I read more of God’s Word everyday of my adult life, I’m in awe of amazement of our God!
To see how God has planned everything for good in such detail (!) throughout the ages of all our lives. There are no words that can describe how wonderful and marvelous He is!
I’m reading “The Lineage of Grace” by Francine Rivers and it is WONDERFUL! It talks about Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bethsheba, and Mary. I started reading it after reading about Tamar in Genesis. I think it’s interesting and lovely that 2 prostitutes as well as an unfaithful woman are in the lineage of Jesus. Their great faith outshines their forgivable sins in the eyes of the Lord, and He chose them. I love that. :)
I got to thinking if Joseph (Mary’s husband) is from the linage of David how much more wouldn’t people shun Joseph and Mary for conceiving out of wed lock (which we know it was the Holy Spirit) but think, David and Bathsheba. They had Solomon out of wedlock, but was the linage of Jesus down the road. I still think (maybe) Bathsheba’s husband would have passed anyway in war and David would have had her as his wife regardless, David just chose the sinful way to do it against God’s will at the time… Just my thoughts. Maybe people back in the day was leaning more on a “generational act repeating itself” when Mary was pregnant with Jesus because of Joseph’s linage. I’m probably thinking too deep, but Im a deep thinker. Just made me ponder.
David and Bathsheba were married when they had Solomon. Their first child who died I believe was the one you’re referring to…”Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her. So she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Now the LORD loved him, and He sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet: So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.” (II Samuel 12:24-25 NKJV)
What caught my attention today was Joseph’s dream. When he woke, did they have no access to scripture to read that very prophesy? Wouldn’t you think you’d go research it in the temple? Then engrave it on your doorpost for everyone to know!? (Just giggling a bit this morning) sure would have prevented the “shame” and made things more believable later on.
I like Elihu in this passage. His youthful passion shows, and makes me giggle when he gives a rather long introduction, stating that he just can’t wait to state his case. (Well, then, out with it!
I love reading the genealogy of Jesus. To know that God uses people for glory and good no matter what they have done is a wonderful thought! Praise be to God!
Really appreciating Elihu’s youthful passion here – angry at Job for justifying himself, but also angry at Job’s friends for condemning him without being able to answer him. We know that Job is innocent, but Elihu doesn’t have the benefit of our knowledge. I like how he is sure Job is wrong but will not condemn him until they’ve gotten to the bottom of it all.
I love how in this part of Job, a man younger than Job and his friends was able to speak so much wisdom. Age doesn’t matter to the spirit, we are never too young or old to receive from Him. And how precious is Job 33:27-28, we deserve to die in a pit but God has taken us out so let us enjoy the life he has given us.
I absolutely love reading the genealogy of Jesus – so many people who “failed” God miserably and yet He still used them powerfully. Such grace, such hope! And the women!
I love how Elihu was honest with Job. He was responding to what Job said unlike Jobs friends. He was speaking in truth.
12 Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. – Job 33:12
Elihu is so courageous in his words in this passage!
And Rahab, a prositute. God uses broken people and He even used Gentiles, Ruth, in Christ’s genealogy.
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“The Spirit of God made me what I am; the breath of God almighty gave me life!” Job 33 msg
I desire to justify you
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I never noticed until this reading that Joseph’s father was named Jacob. I thought it was cool that those are the only names that repeat and that they begin and end the story.
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we do not get wisdom from the amount of years we have experienced but instead from the Lord. It is not OK to make people feel less than you just because they are younger. Anyone can do great things through Jesus Christ, no matter how young or old
Important for us all to remember not to discount the youth in our lives
Elihu was of the family Ram.. which is also a part of Joseph’s lineage. I love to see the small (and big) ways God ties everything together so neatly❣️
God is with us ❤️❤️
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29-30“This is the way God works.
Over and over again
He pulls our souls back from certain destruction
so we’ll see the light — and live in the light!
I love how God continues to pull us out of our darkness and into the light time and time again. I pray that we’ll be more open to the circumstances that God is trying to lead us through
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I’m really enjoying seeing such a full picture of the Bible by reading more than I have in this amount of time, and reading both OT and NT every day. Having the history of Genesis fresh in my mind while reading the genealogy of Christ, etc. You can see so clearly how the thread of Salvation ties the entire story of the Bible together.
10% read! What an awesome milestone! I don’t believe I’ve ever made it this far!
Great line from Job “we have all sinned, but did not get what we deserved.” We deserve death and Hell, but we get grace and mercy. Thank you Jesus!
Lord help me be as obedient as Joseph.
23“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
12“Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you,
for God is greater than man.
amen !! -ellie
Praise God that He has been with us, sparing not the incarnation of the Son for our salvation.
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It is so enjoyable to read these passages were men were patient and followed the Lord, trusting him to carry them through difficult situations. In Job, Elihu came to Job’s defense against the older men, perhaps being a glimmer of hope in a thus far trying life for Job. In Matthew, Joseph listens to God and supports Mary as his wife, even though the situation was confusing and frustrating. God is so good.
I agree! God has the most beautiful way of intervening and molding our lives to accomplish His glory. It’s hard for us to ever see through the thick of it all, but His ways are truly higher than our ways!
Found this to be a super interesting and helpful explanation about Joseph vs Mary genealogy!
https://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/BQA/k/184/Why-Does-Jesus-Have-Two-Different-Genealogies-Matthew-11-16-Luke-323-38.htm
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I love in this passage of Job Elihu isn’t afraid to call out the three other men for their ignorance. Our culture reveres the older generation as wise because of their life experience but all throughout the Bible God makes it clear wisdom comes from God. We shouldn’t always dismiss what is said from someone younger than us. Sometimes kids are so much wiser than we are
Amen! I quoted that on my Facebook this morning after reading it!
Same! I can’t wait to read tomorrow what Elihu says to the four of them.
I actually read the names of Jesus’ family tree aloud this time to keep myself in the text. My mind often just skips over the lists of names I can barely read in the Bible!
I DO have a question though: the family tree leads to Joseph to whom Jesus is NOT a blood relation of. I’ve never thought about it until now! Shouldn’t it be Mary’s lineage traced here??
I mean I get that it was written in a time when male lineage was of more import than female… Still doesn’t compute for me!
I see what you’re saying but the way I look at it is a father is more than just biological. It’s the love and care you give a child. God picked Joseph to be Jesus earthly father. It would be interesting to see Mary’s line. Maybe she had an ancestor come from David. Marrying your cousin was pretty standard.
Matt 1:1 is fulfilling what the Lord said in Genesis 12:1-3 so that is key. Also Jer 23:5-6 is fulfilled in Matt 1:1 where is says he would be from the line of David.
Look in Luke 3 for Mary’s Genealogy.
Oh, thank you!!
Yes Mary is from the line of David look I’m Luke 3 for more info. :)
So my pastor actually touched on this a little bit yesterday and the lineage can create a story of redemption. While Joseph is not biologically related to Jesus, he was still chosen to care for him in his childhood, so seeing where he came from can still be valuable. One example of this from this lineage that was shared by my pastor involves Ruth. We know Ruth was an amazing woman, but she was a Moabite. Looking back a few weeks to Genesis 19, the Moabite line was conceived by Lot and his oldest daughter after fleeing Sodom. That terrible beginning to an entire people, who were a nuisance to Israel for so long, was still redeemed through Ruth and led to the lineage of the man who was chosen to raise Jesus and arguably save him and Mary as he could have had her stoned while pregnant with the Savior.
So the reason which I understand is that the bloodline is through Joseph, however we are all fallen from sin from our fathers fathers since Adam and Eve. So Jesus was not bound by the sin we were bound to through Adam, he is born of God. That’s why He was perfect and sinless and to be this he couldn’t be born by an earthy father but only our heavenly one.
Immanuel “God with us” ❤️
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Here the line is traced through Joseph, but in Luke 3 it is traced through Mary, to show that Jesus was from the line of David through both parents.
That’s so amazing. Thanks for adding that insight!
I love Joseph’s spirit. Although he at first thought Mary had hurt him, he didn’t retaliate or deal with her harshly. That should be a lesson to me. People will fail and hurt me, sometimes founded, sometimes not. I should give them the benefit of the doubt and still allow them to be human, not presume what really happened and cut them off, choose kindness and be willing to hear them out.
Joseph had to have been at least a little skeptic of Mary, the woman he knew and loved. All the signs pointed to foul play on her part, & the whole town would viciously discuss their situation in whispers. But when they were wed and the baby came, a boy, just as his dream foretold, what could he say? What could he do but believe? “And he called his name Jesus”, which I believe was an act of faith and acceptance of God’s plan, regardless of the seemingly sketchy situation!
I was just sitting here wondering why, if technically Joseph didn’t contribute to Jesus’ DNA, why do we say Jesus was of that lineage when He should be of Mary’s family line? But this example of selfless love and sacrifice, paramount to the plan of God, settles that question for me. Jesus is of the lineage of Joseph because Joseph accepted God’s plan and believed, thusly fulfilling the lineage of Christ we know today. Pretty amazing stuff!
From what I have read by naming Jesus Joseph officially adopted him as a son and therefore Jesus became part of the royal lineage of David. This is a parallel to how we are adopted by God and become part of His royal line- heirs with Christ.
I love the name Immanuel, God with us. It is so comforting to know that God was with us physically through Jesus, currently through the Spirit, and will be with us when He returns. Dietrich Bonhoeffer commented on this truth of God with us: “God lives, lives in the world, lives for the world, lends it meaning and life, makes it our home, gives our own life a relationship to eternity and a closeness to God…” Praises!
Such a great reading. I find it difficult to know, however, who is speaking correctly and wisely and who is speaking foolishly. Can’t wait to get to the end to hear God speak about it. Has inspired me to do some further study into Job!! Amazingly confusing but powerful story of the thought process we go through when we are suffering – it was uncomfortably correct!
I also love Joseph’s faithfulness to the Lord & to Mary here.
I know, Bethany! Same here. My husband is reading Job too, and he’s always telling me when people are being sarcastic because I can’t tell! But yes, a fascinating story with so much truth about who God is laced throughout. Glad I’m not the only one who can’t tell the context sometimes :))
I feel the same way, Bethany! I’m about to look through a commentary on Job in hopes that it will help me out :)
Thanks Nikki, very needed…
I have been very behind on the scripture but still pursuing and enjoying it :) prayers would be appreciated to catch up!
I’m right there with you Emily! Prayers that we can make progress and get back on track together! Although there is nothing wrong with taking your time and dwelling diligently in his word:)
Elihu’s spirit of boldness! Wow I will continue to work on that and be bold with the word :)
The homily during Mass this afternoon was about suffering. I was pleased when the priest started talking about Job (hey I’m reading that one!) The line that stuck out to me most was when my priest said “Doubt is not a lack of faith. God does not become angry that we doubt. Faith is overcoming that doubt that we have.” Powerful message today.
Wow Nikki. Thank you so much for sharing. That same line is just what I needed to hear. What a beautiful thing to think that doubt is not an immediate condemnation but instead an instrument to grow our faith even more. God is able to use every moment to teach and bring us closer.
This reading seemed rather bland to me today but the idea that doubt is not a lack of faith is what I needed. Thank you again for sharing.
I love that, Niki! “God does not become angry that we doubt.” Such a profound message, one that I try and teach to my brothers/sisters in the faith. Thank you for sharing.
32 If you have anything to say, answer me;
speak up, for I want to vindicate you.
33 But if not, then listen to me;
be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”
I have been studying the word vindication and vindicate this week. It means : to show that (someone) should not be blamed for a crime, mistake, etc. : to show that (someone) is not guilty
: to show that (someone or something that has been criticized or doubted) is correct, true, or reasonable
Elihu is not speaking down to Job but is rather speaking face to face level with him. Not addressing his problem but that he wants to show how Job is not at fault and not guilty of these sins that the others were placing onto Job. He is looking at Job’s relationship with God not his possible sins.
33 But if not, then listen to me;
be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”
Sometimes we must be silent! So important. Great message.
I love Job 33:27. I have sinned. I have perverted what is right. And I didn’t get what I deserve. The “breath of the Almighty” in youth who love. Speaking to Job’s relationship with God not to his overwhelming pain.
I LOVE how Elihu gives us young women confidencw that God can and will use whoever He chooses, regardless of age. It’s fine time that we stop thinking we are yoo young to follow Christ or too young to speak about what we know to be true. If God is at the center, we must be bold in Him.
I completely agree! Though, Elihu’s boldness was more of an encouragement to be humble. He gave credit to The Lord’s spirit who was in him that made him wise, not his anger that drove him to his boldness. For if he was filled with the Spirit, then I’m sure that humility, patience and the other fruits of the Spirit filled him as well! This passage was just a reminder for me that as young women, our wisdom to be outspoken in the Lord must come from a place of humility.
OT ends with a desperate need of hope. NT opens with the promise of a Savior. Presents Him as The Hope. Jesus because “He will save His people from their sin”
Job 33:27 speaks of grace, yes??
Rebecca,
David and Bathsheba were married when they had Solomon. Their first child who died I believe was the one you’re referring to…”Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her. So she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Now the LORD loved him, and He sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet: So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.” (II Samuel 12:24-25 NKJV)
Verse 8 stood out to me the most:
“But it is the spirit in a person,
the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.”
Though we may search and search for understanding in this world, it is only through the breath of our Father that we will truly receive it.
Same verse for me too…I just love it!
Love!
I’m loving this more and more as we go through this throughout the year! It’s only February too!As I read more of God’s Word everyday of my adult life, I’m in awe of amazement of our God!
To see how God has planned everything for good in such detail (!) throughout the ages of all our lives. There are no words that can describe how wonderful and marvelous He is!
“And you are to name Him Jesus.” (v. 21) … “And he named Him Jesus.” (v. 25) // may we never lose this simple obedience in our walk with Jesus ❤️
I’m reading “The Lineage of Grace” by Francine Rivers and it is WONDERFUL! It talks about Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bethsheba, and Mary. I started reading it after reading about Tamar in Genesis. I think it’s interesting and lovely that 2 prostitutes as well as an unfaithful woman are in the lineage of Jesus. Their great faith outshines their forgivable sins in the eyes of the Lord, and He chose them. I love that. :)
That is beautiful! I need to read this book!
I absolutely LOVED that book! It gave me a whole new insight!
I am reading that book!!! Isn’t it so cool that God can use the trash in our lives and somehow make treasures poor out from them.
Great book!
14 generations 3 times over…what a plan – what patience – what love! !
I thought the same thing
I got to thinking if Joseph (Mary’s husband) is from the linage of David how much more wouldn’t people shun Joseph and Mary for conceiving out of wed lock (which we know it was the Holy Spirit) but think, David and Bathsheba. They had Solomon out of wedlock, but was the linage of Jesus down the road. I still think (maybe) Bathsheba’s husband would have passed anyway in war and David would have had her as his wife regardless, David just chose the sinful way to do it against God’s will at the time… Just my thoughts. Maybe people back in the day was leaning more on a “generational act repeating itself” when Mary was pregnant with Jesus because of Joseph’s linage. I’m probably thinking too deep, but Im a deep thinker. Just made me ponder.
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Rebecca,
David and Bathsheba were married when they had Solomon. Their first child who died I believe was the one you’re referring to…”Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her. So she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Now the LORD loved him, and He sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet: So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.” (II Samuel 12:24-25 NKJV)
What caught my attention today was Joseph’s dream. When he woke, did they have no access to scripture to read that very prophesy? Wouldn’t you think you’d go research it in the temple? Then engrave it on your doorpost for everyone to know!? (Just giggling a bit this morning) sure would have prevented the “shame” and made things more believable later on.
I believe at that time the only people with access to the Scripture were the priests. So I don’t think Joseph doing research was an option.
I like Elihu in this passage. His youthful passion shows, and makes me giggle when he gives a rather long introduction, stating that he just can’t wait to state his case. (Well, then, out with it!
I love reading the genealogy of Jesus. To know that God uses people for glory and good no matter what they have done is a wonderful thought! Praise be to God!
Really appreciating Elihu’s youthful passion here – angry at Job for justifying himself, but also angry at Job’s friends for condemning him without being able to answer him. We know that Job is innocent, but Elihu doesn’t have the benefit of our knowledge. I like how he is sure Job is wrong but will not condemn him until they’ve gotten to the bottom of it all.
I love how in this part of Job, a man younger than Job and his friends was able to speak so much wisdom. Age doesn’t matter to the spirit, we are never too young or old to receive from Him. And how precious is Job 33:27-28, we deserve to die in a pit but God has taken us out so let us enjoy the life he has given us.
I absolutely love reading the genealogy of Jesus – so many people who “failed” God miserably and yet He still used them powerfully. Such grace, such hope! And the women!
Yes! It reminds me that God keeps His promises. Even when people fail Him. Wow!
Good reminder. He uses us as we are. His purpose can overcome any obstacle and any failure.