What Is Most Important To You?

 

Today's verse is Job 23:12

     Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips;

      I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

    What a statement Job here makes, and OH, what a statement it is. Though he has confessed his sin, and expressed his hope a few times for his friends, here he confesses that he has a clear conscience before God, and that even more important to him are those things that God has spoken to him. Can you say the same? If it was a choice that must be made, would you choose to eat, or to read and meditate on the Word of God? And above that, would you not only praise God, but whatever circumstance you find yourself in, Would you give God the Glory he is due? If, as Job has here, you lost all including your health, would you Glorify God, or would your curse him as Job’s wife encouraged him to do? Even more, If God gave you all that you could imagine, would you still put God first in all that you do, and give him alone the Glory? Do we not find in Proverbs: “Two things have I required of thee; / Deny me them not before I die: / Remove far from me vanity and lies: / Give me neither poverty nor riches; / Feed me with food convenient for me: / Lest I be full, and deny thee, / And say, Who is the Lord? / Or lest I be poor, and steal, / And take the name of my God in vain.” Selah [What have you Chosen?] Amen.

To God be the Glory

Scott

Today’s reading is Job 21-23, Psalm 101, Revelation 16

Tomorrow’s reading will be Job 24-27, Revelation 17