Wed.’s Devo.- Great Promises

Read Job 5:1-27 Eliphaz continues. He asks Job that if he calls out to the angels, which one does he think will answer him? Being mad or envious of others will only get him death. It is the foolish man whose children are not safe, whose harvest is eaten by the poor, and whose livelihood is stolen. Trouble and affliction don’t just happen without a reason. So if Eliphaz was Job, he would seek God’s counsel. God can do great and marvelous things. He never fails. He sends the rain to water the fields and he lifts up those that mourn and are downcast. He makes them dwell in safely. He can stop the plans of the wicked and turn them back on them. He causes their vision to be cloudy so that they can’t see the obvious. But, God saves the poor from being harmed or spoken against or mistreated. So they have hope as do all who God corrects. We should always be thankful when God corrects us. God will bring affliction to correct us but he will never leave us that way. He will always heal our wounds and make us better. He can deliver us no matter how man finds to get in trouble and in the end, no evil will touch us. He will preserve us in times of lack and protect us when being attacked. We will be hidden from verbal abuse and will have no fear of the future. We will stand on all the promises God has given in the past. These promises he refers to as the “stones of the field”. (They would place stones to remember the covenants God made with them.) Even wild animals will not harm us. We will live in peace and in righteousness. Our seed will be powerful and plentiful. We will live a long full life bringing forth fruit in the right season. Then he tells Job, he is only telling this for his own good. What Eliphaz says is true and an awesome promise, it just didn’t apply to Job’s situation. He wasn’t the foolish man that Eliphaz was referring to but it doesn’t negate the truth of Eliphaz’s words. He just were saying them to the wrong situation. Lord, help us to apply the promises we read today to our own situations and see how wonderfully powerful you want to be in our lives.