31/1/18 – Job 19, Job 20, Job 21 Matthew 21:1-17 Psalm 18:1-6

Today’s Contributions are from Pastor Cliff Henderson.

Job 19 v23-27

Job was going through the mill, he was in a dreadful condition, his health had departed, his friends had forsaken him, his family were no more, his wife was repulsed by him.

And if things weren’t bad enough the hardest thing Job had to come to terms with was that he had no answers to the condition he found himself in. He didn’t know why.

But here in this discourse in today’s readings we come to some of the greatest verses in scripture Job 19 v23-27.

Job didn’t have any answers to many things, and he couldn’t explain why all these things had overtook him, but here he boldly declares a wonderful truth that Job was absolutely assured of, a truth he couldn’t be shaken from.

I KNOW

1. My redeemer is alive

2. I know the day is coming when he will stand upon the earth, ( Job saw the fulfilment of John1v14)

3. That death isn’t the end, there is Life after death, my Redeemer is the resurrection and the life and those who live and believe in him even though they die yet shall they live.

4. That one day I will look into the face of God, He that has seen me has seen my Father also.

5. That the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us, “How my heart yearns for this”

My dear brother and sister do you have the same confidence and assurance that Job had, can You confidently declare today , I don’t understand or know a lot of things but this I do know:

Job 19 v23-27

Oh that my words were written!

Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

Oh that with an iron pen and lead

they were engraved in the rock forever!

For I know that my Redeemer lives,

and at the last he will stand upon the earth.

And after my skin has been thus destroyed,

yet in my flesh I shall see God,

whom I shall see for myself,

and my eyes shall behold, and not another.

My heart faints within me!

Matthew 21  v 2-7

saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.” This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,

“Say to the daughter of Zion,

‘Behold, your king is coming to you,

humble, and mounted on a donkey,

on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”

The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them.

Israel’s Messiah riding into Jerusalem on a donkey with its foal beside her. Little did the owner of these two animals realise that he would be playing a part in a fulfilment of a 500yr old prophesy spoken by the prophet Zechariah.

We often live our lives not aware that we to have been positioned by God to bring about His purposes on the earth, the people we meet and converse with, the phone call, the seemingly insignificant events that make up our daily lives, can all be in the hands of God a fulfilment of God’s destiny in their lives.

Let us live life with the awareness that we to have been positioned by God for such a time as this, and let us have the attitude that the owner of these two animals had, that we are continually ready to give what we have for the Masters service, the Lord had need of a donkey and it’s foal, and He has need of you and me to.

In the words of Simon Peter “Such as I have I give to you”

Psalm 18 v1-6

I love you, O LORD, my strength.

The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,

my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,

my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised,

and I am saved from my enemies.

The cords of death encompassed me;

the torrents of destruction assailed me;

the cords of Sheol entangled me;

the snares of death confronted me.

In my distress I called upon the LORD;

to my God I cried for help.

From his temple he heard my voice,

and my cry to him reached his ears.

What a position to be in victorious over all your enemies, As I wrote this devotion today I had just read this morning  these words from 2 Samuel 7 v1 (which I don’t think was a coincidence) speaking of King David the scripture declares “When the King had settled into his palace and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies”

David was a man of war, and victorious in all his battles, his enemies had been defeated, but as today’s reading indicates although David had been in the battles, he acknowledges the One who had given him the victory, ( add here Luke verses Psalm18 v1-3)

We serve the same God that David served and He will give us the victory, “ So shall I be saved from my enemies”

Do you see yourself in this position today Victorious over all your enemies? even if you are aware that you do not have total victory in every area of your life, do what David did “ In my distress I called upon the Lord and cried out to my God, He heard my voice from His temple and my cry came before Him, even to His ears”

Thanks be unto God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. He will help us to win every battle we face, until all our enemies are conquered.