August 31

Today's Reading

In Job today, Elihu concludes his arguments that God is in charge and knows what He is doing. Then the Lord Himself takes up His lesson for Job. Job's testing came to mature him and grow his intimacy with God. Job was not tested because of some dark sin. God, though, needed Job to understand that he couldn't fully understand all the things of God. Moreover, Job couldn't be "in charge" of the details of life. God is teaching me this lesson as I write this. It is both wonderful and terrifying.

2 Corinthians opens up one of the great questions of life for the Christian. On the one hand, we want to hang on to this life in our earthly body. On the other had, we long to be with God in heaven.

Psalms. It's one thing to know that we are being disciplined because of our sin. It's quite another to suffer and not understand why. Those are the moments we learn to trust God's heart even though we don't understand His hand.

Proverbs. I can think of lots of modern-day ways we can affirm our laziness. Can you?

What did you notice today?