Back from vacation, again
Man, this time of year makes it hard to get anything done, especially in the mortgage business.
Well I am back from having New Years off, so here I am at work. I have been planning on networking my house with the help of my good friend Patrick(who does it for a living), so I have been shopping around for a good deal on parts. Just thought you should know.
I finished Job last night, and I enjoyed it immensely even though I didn’t understand 100% of what the 3 friends were getting at. I think they were trying to tell him he did something wrong, but Job said he was righteous and have done nothing wrong. What I find interesting though, is the vivid description of the leviathan. Some modernistic scholars will tell you that this part of Job is figurative (while some will say the whole book of Job is a folk tale), but I disagree. Why would God go into such great detail of something that does exist?
Job 41
1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Why would He ask Job if he can draw something out of the water that didn’t exist? I don’t know what it was, but whatever it was, it was mighty and could breath fire. Could this be what today we call a dragon? Interesting indeed. I used to tell people that when I see God I was going to ask him about the dinosaurs, but once we are in his Holy presence, wouldn’t that be the farthest thing from our mind?
2 Cor 5
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
I have gotten through the first 17 or so chapters of Psalms, which is another book I have never read. David put his faith in the LORD, who gave him wisdom and also provided for him.
Psalms 126
6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.