Tag: suffering
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Day 338: Comfort Food (2 Corinthians 1:3-7)
On a gray, comfort-food kind of day, Paul reminds us that God is the One who comes alongside us in our affliction—and His comfort is meant to be shared.
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Day 021: The Despised and Rejected Bride (Genesis 29)
Leah never wanted to be the patron saint of the unloved. She was despised not because she was cruel or faithless, but because she was not someone else.
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Day 011: When We Don’t Feel as Close as We Used To (Job 29:2-4)
When we don’t feel as close to God as we used to, it’s easy to assume He’s the one who moved. Job felt that distance deeply—and he measured it by the loss of respect and honor from the people around him. But the book of Job reminds us of a steady truth we’re prone to…
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Day 010: Is Job Just, or Just Arrogant? (Job 27:6)
Job’s declaration—“I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go”—sounds arrogant at first. But when read in light of God’s character and the gospel, Job’s confidence is not pride in himself, but trust that God is righteous, knowable, and just. In Christ, that confidence finds its true fulfillment.
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Day 008: Standing on the Dust (Job 19:25)
Job’s famous confession—“I know that my Redeemer lives”—is often heard as a promise about the end of history. But a closer look at the Hebrew reveals a hope that is nearer than we expect: a Redeemer who does not merely stand upon the earth, but who stands on the dust—present with us in suffering, even…
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Day 006: Compassion Fatigue (Job 12:5)
As Job’s suffering drags on, his friends grow weary of compassion and quick with contempt. I see myself in their frustration more than I want to admit. Yet where my patience runs out, Jesus “always lives to make intercession” for us.
