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Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Devotional: January 12th

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Job 10:1-22

"Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress?" Such is the question that Job, in his bitterness, would put to God (v. 3). Scripture answers him with a verse which we must never forget in our times of testing: "He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men" (Lamentations 3:33). This is all the more true when it concerns His own children.

Like Job in vv. 8 to 12, David in Psalms 139:14-16 marvels at the way in which he has been created. And Job concludes in the same way: The One who has made me thus, "knit . . . together with bones and sinews", (JND translation) knows me to the depths of my soul. How could it ever be possible to hide anything at all from Him? The light of God, His eyes which search out sin, these are what disturb Job (v. 6; Job 13:9). He feels he is before the LORD like prey hunted by a lion (v. 16). In the same way, the author of Psalms 139:1-24 at first seeks to hide away from God’s sight. But in the end he comes round to wanting to be searched and known by Him (Psalms 139:23). We have made real progress when we have reached that point!

"Thy visitation hath preserved my spirit", Job acknowledges in v. 12. Without this care, who knows to what depths he would have sunk? Perhaps even as far as cursing God or committing suicide (Job 2:9). May we similarly recognise that our spirits, which can be so quickly excited or, on the contrary, as quickly depressed, need to be preserved by the Lord!

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