Day off edition: Gen 38, Mark 8, Job 4, and Romans 8

Need a spiritual shot in the arm? Romans 8 will do it! Man, what a killer section of scripture! I love it because it shows us how huge and powerful God is. There is nothing – no nothing that will separate us from the love of God that is ours because Jesus died for us. Nothing! Not sort of nothing – not almost nothing – nothing! Nothing – get the point. So why do we worry? Why? We forget that nothing cause it’s hard to process it all. We separate ourselves from God and ignore Him every day and maybe we figure He does the same. Truth is that He never leaves us – even when we are busy chasing other things. What are you chasing and how is that hurting your relationship with God and other people? Well?

Friday is here and so is the reading: Gen 37, Mark 7, Job 3, and Romans 7!

Oh man, Job and his buddies had it right – for a little while. The bad things happened and they were silent. They did not whine. When Job’s wife (a really encourager) tells Job to curse God and die he asks her whether he should take only the good from God and not the bad? All of this is in Job 2 – there is a right attitude that all in life is not flowers and butterflies. Bad things happen – even to the nicest of people. The deal is that God is in control. In today’s reading, frustration seems to get the best of him. How quickly things can turn. I think its because the focus goes off of God and onto us. With God I will find an endless source of all that is good – with me I find emptiness and despair. How has God helped you in the past? How is God helping you now? Does this section inspire you or drag you down?