Job said, "is there any taste in the white of an egg?" (6:6). I have been trying to tell Bekah this for ages! The yolk is where taste is.
Chapters 6 and 7 are of Job speaking. Job asked his friends to please not condemn him because his righteousness was his only comfort (6:10). This is actually a great thought to me. When everything seems to be going wrong in my life, when friends are acting ugly, when the money situation seems bad, when there is no encouraging word - I can still KNOW I am walking in my integrity! It's great that our God does not demand that we FEEL right about our life...He demands that we KNOW we are walking in the right path. And this is comforting, because then our faith and spiritual understanding is not based upon whether or not our life is going smoothly. It's based upon our relationship to God. Hallelujah!
One note on our Proverbs reading:
Proverbs 3:31: "Do not envy a man of violence And do not choose any of his ways." I wonder if I have done that...many times? What "heroes" do we choose to put up on our stage? James Bond? I would like to point out that just because someone is a fighter doesn't necessarily make them a "violent man." I think of people like King David and Joshua, who shed much blood, but I don't believe they would be listed as "violent men" in the way this verse is speaking. And so we might have heroes who fight for good. But I fear there are so many "heroes" today who walk a line so fine it may be non-existent - they really are violent men. They enjoy violence. They exist for violence. We are NOT to emulate them. We are not to envy them. We should be careful when selecting role models!
What did y'all see that struck you today?