_Then answered Zophar the Naamathite._ THE ATTITUDE OF JOB’S FRIENDS In this chapter Zophar gives his first speech, and it is sharper toned than those which went before. The three friends have now all spoken. Your sympathies perhaps are not wholly on their side. Yet do not let us misjudge them, or... [ Continue Reading ]
_Canst thou by searching find out God?_ THE UNSEARCHABLENESS OF GOD You are not to suppose that your God is to be utterly unknown, and that because your faculties cannot pierce the inmost recesses of His being, therefore you are discharged from the duty of thinking about Him at all. Your faculties... [ Continue Reading ]
_If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands towards Him._ THE WAY TO HAPPINESS I purpose to show you that happiness is within your reach, and to point out the means by which it may be infallibly attained. 1. Prepare your hearts, or rightly dispose and order your hearts especially wi... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away._ COMFORT FROM THE FUTURE Job’s misery was extreme, and it seemed as if he could never forget it. He never did forget the fact of it, but he did forget the pain of it. Nothing better can happen to our misery than that it should... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt shine forth._ SHINING FOR JESUS A beautiful parable showing how we can live for Christ, by shining for Him, speaks from every lawn covered with hoar frost in winter, when the sun shines out the frost melts into great dewdrops, and each of these hanging from its blade of grass, is a min... [ Continue Reading ]
_And thou shalt be secure._ THE PRACTICAL ADVANTAGES OF RELIGION These words represent to us the comfortable state of that man who has God for his protector and friend; the security and safety which there is in His favour. “He shall be secure, because there is hope”; _i.e., _whatever may be the pr... [ Continue Reading ]
_But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. .. and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost._ THE DOOM OF THE WICKED 1. Here is the loss of energy. “The eyes of the wicked shall fail.” The soul’s eyes gone, and the spiritual universe is midnight. 2. Here is the loss of safety. “They shall no... [ Continue Reading ]