Friends beating him down, saying he must have done something really wrong. The old and wise reminding him that "you get what you gave." For Job, it was kind of like someone saying to a sports team "You know, if you hadn't gone out partying all night last night, you might have been able to play hard for an hour." Job's friends, old-timers like himself were just gushing with discouragement. Yet, for all the "down" attitudes, Job was saying "hold on, I got something to say!" Chapters twenty-six through twenty-eight were more like statements of how he remembers the God…

That was the challenge from Pastor Dave yesterday. "For two weeks, read two chapters a day, Monday through Friday." My first thought was to just push ahead in Job, but then after some thought and prayer, I am off to do both! Okay, but what or where does the reading start? Old or New Testament? Re-read something I have already read/studied? So many places to start. So many interesting avenues. Then, after flipping through Matthew, Luke and much of the New Testament, I went back to the Old Testament. It wasn't the Psalms or [more]the Song of Solomon. Thoughts about…

There was Job talking about wisdom – how to find it, what it's place is in life and it's value. His words clearly said that the depths don't hold it, nor the sea. I heard that as the deepest canyon or valley and the deepest sea saying "it's bigger than both of us, 'cause we don't have it." Then came the blockbuster – in effect, he said that no one has enough gold or silver to buy it, and it could not be paid for with the gold of Ophir, or precious onyx or sapphire. Those three things got my…