Our Daily Bread Today Job 14 ++

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Job 14:1-22
1"How frail is humanity! How short is life, and how full of trouble! 2Like a flower, we blossom for a moment and then wither. Like the shadow of a passing cloud, we quickly disappear. 3Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature and demand an accounting from me? No one! 4Who can create purity in one born impure? 5You have decided the length of our lives. You know how many months we will live, and we are not given a minute longer. 6So give us a little rest, won't you? Turn away your angry stare. We are like hired hands, so let us finish the task you have given us.
7"If a tree is cut down, there is hope that it will sprout again and grow new branches. 8Though its roots have grown old in the earth and its stump decays, 9at the scent of water it may bud and sprout again like a new seedling.
10"But when people die, they lose all strength. They breathe their last, and then where are they? 11As water evaporates from a lake and as a river disappears in drought, 12people lie down and do not rise again. Until the heavens are no more, they will not wake up nor be roused from their sleep.
13"I wish you would hide me with the dead and forget me there until your anger has passed. But mark your calendar to think of me again! 14If mortals die, can they live again? This thought would give me hope, and through my struggle I would eagerly wait for release. 15You would call and I would answer, and you would yearn for me, your handiwork. 16For then you would count my steps, instead of watching for my sins. 17My sins would be sealed in a pouch, and you would cover over my iniquity.
18"But as mountains fall and crumble and as rocks fall from a cliff, 19as water wears away the stones and floods wash away the soil, so you destroy people's hope. 20You always overpower them, and then they pass from the scene. You disfigure them in death and send them away. 21They never know if their sons grow up in honor or sink to insignificance. 22They are absorbed in their own pain and grief."


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~ Lena’s Journalin’ Today~
Job is an awesome story. Job is such a human being, yet such a man of God. During his life, he was so strong in his faith, grew in stature in the religious community, enough that God trusted him as a man. This kind of person, God’s enemy hates. The enemy again went to accuse brethren before God. He told God that this awesome human of God would curse God’s spirit if he was touched in his natural life at all. Is that what happens or what? Don’t we find out what we believe when we’re touched at home or in our natural bodies that serve us and keep us here?
See words in the kingdom of God are cheap, easily found, a dime a dozen. The real PROOF is in the pudding of life, the substance of what our lives are made up of, if we shout hallelujah in church services from being amused by what’s said, or more clearly, by who says it, yet when we go about life M-Sat, we curse God, we go places that are so against the church we attend, etc, our faith is brought to nothing.
The church services are where we get fueled for life, the M-Sat, days. The church services are meant for us to come together and celebrate what God has done in the M-Sat time with us and with those we’ve been able to touch and meet. We are deceived to put on religious faces and show up for church, may as well stay home!
So where’s the proof and what is the proof? You say you love God, because you’ve realized a small part of how much He loves you and what He did for your dreadful sin and how He sent His most beloved to die in a place you should have been rightly condemned to. You’re seeing that, so you say with your mouth, with words, “I love God”. With God, words do not hold weight unless made alive by action.
In the case of me, and of us, and of Job, our words of love have to be tested, to see if they are eternal, if they are not eternal we will not be able to live in the eternal integrity of God.
So, satan himself decided to test Job’s words, to test Job’s declared to be strong faith in God. He hit him at home and in his body, in his evaluation of life, his value systems etc. Job was hit hard. If any of us think we’ve ever been hit hard, we have NO idea at all, NONE. His inner core was being carved into, all of the outer shell wall of protection of any self kind was gone, there he was, heart exposed to everyone and everybody- the spirit realm most of all was observing whether a man could really love God or not.
Everyone and everybody (spiritual and natural), was watching to see what Job would do and say, how he would re-act and respond, to himself, to the enemy, to life, to death, to suffering, to God.
In this passage we see some of that response. We see how it goes from natural speaking to spiritual speaking. He goes in from reality of the eternal essence, truth which was known by him in the depths of his heart, to his mind‘s reason, what he was tempted to think might be true.
If I can get any great point across to you I’d tell you in truth what Job has said, life is short. Yeah, Lena we all know that…..but how much do we know it? We are talking natural earth life, why we’re here etc. I’ve written before that we need to think of ourselves as from another Kingdom, ambassadors here, “angels” on assignment, only here for a time. We’ve got to realize we are from and are heading towards the eternal realm, either of darkness or light and it is completely our choice, the choice of our free-wills born inside of our natural beings, and given us by God! We have a choice where we’ll go, whos side we’ll eternally be on. God’s side, the life and light side, or satan’s side, where hosts of darkness dwell and serve the one who is against God. The choice is made during this oh so short time here on earth.
Oh God that people would be told this message and would believe it, receive it, and live it!
You’ve got to see beyond. Job had to see beyond. In this passage he did see ahead of himself, ahead of his suffering, ahead of the attacks unleashed on his temporary flesh man, but really the attacks were against God Himself!
Must God keep His eye on such frailty and cause that frail one to give an account? Yes! Why would we not give an account to God? Don’t we want Him to know we’re with Him, we’re here, we’re on the roll call? If we do not show up, everyday, show our faces before Him, tell Him by our lives we love Him, how would He know we are His?
There’s a NT scripture that says, people who had acted just like Christians stood before God in judgment and God said to them , “Who are you?” I so wonder if those were interested in doing good things for people and looking like they had it together, but when it came to being accountable for life, and when it came time to coming into God’s presence in secret and when it came to obeying Him, they did not go “there”. They did it their way and no one else was gonna tell them how to do anything! They had an independent unaccountable spirit? I mean think about it, does God require an account? What if we are accounted for? Well to me that is good fire insurance, if accountability keeps my name on that heavenly life & light roll I’m ALL for it, who else wants to know where I am?
Can one take what is impure and change it to pure? No one ever seemed to be able to do that before, even animal sacrifices did not seem to completely clear things up and there were even actions that required sacrifice that were just a part of being alive, even if a person was good. It just seemed impossible to man, and it is /was before the blood of Jesus was shed for us all. It was impossible for man to be able to account to God and for man to be forgiven sin, BUT nothing is impossible to God so He sent His Son who shed all His blood for the covering of our sins.
Job had watched things of the earth respond to their Creator, like you cut grass and it grows again, you cut down a tree and sprouts come forth! You think something is dead and then a hint of somekind of new life happens. He began to ask, can man live after He DIES? His questions, the questions that arose from His inner core, were being answered by His questions. Have you ever had that happen to you? Why does that happen? Because inside of each man is an eternal seed awaiting growth and nuturing, it can sprout on its own, but many times by God’s grace He sends messengers, to till, plant, water, fertilize etc. We are the garden of God and when we get saved we immediately become both a nurtured garden and a tender/helper in other’s gardens, because all of the gardens are God’s and He desires all gardens to grow from eternal seeds.
What I’m saying is, we have a seed inside that can grow and grow and grow depending on the atmosphere of our lives. If we are alone and left alone we have the same seeds and they can grow by our asking the questions and God’s spirit inside of us answering them for us, but if we get around gardeners, we’ll get a lot more growth out of our seeds, because we’ll get a lot more wisdom and experience about gardening. The gardeners can be found in churches. A well watered garden springs forth and brings forth much fruit, while a garden that does not get but a few drops of water each day may barely grow or even die off, because of lack of keeping.
Is there hope in God? Yes, that is the ONLY place of hope, there is no other place of eternal hope except in God. People search high and low, far and wide, in every other place and do not find hope, not in themselves, not in friends, not in any other place except the place of truth, which is God’s words.

Thank you for reading today, and being a garden readied to be watered again and again.
Thank you for choosing what is not worldly easy, but is of the eternal nature.
Thank you for seeking the Kingdom of God and joining me in spreading its message far and wide to reach others like us who have searched high/low far/wide for truth.

Thank you for eating Daily Bread- Today- with me!
I love you!
God Bless You! ~ Lena

Proverbs 27:17-19
17 You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another. 18 If you care for your orchard, you'll enjoy its fruit; if you honor your boss, you'll be honored. 19 Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.
Psalm 122:1
1 When they said, "Let's go to the house of God," my heart leaped for joy.