Tues.’s Devo - Face to Face

Read: Job 20:1-22:30, 2 Co. 1:1-11, Ps. 40:11-17, Pr. 22:2-4 Jobs friends try to decide if Job is a hypocrite since he started out with so much and ended up with so little. His blessing has turned to a curse and that is the only explanation they can come up with. Job tells them that their reasoning is false. Job is a great book to remind us that sometimes circumstances can’t be reasoned out with man’s reasonings. We have to ultimately trust God. In our reading in Corinthians, Paul encourages us to comfort those going through tribulations. Jobs’ friends needed to read this. Everything we go through is for our good and the good of someone else coming behind us. Several times in scripture it talks about the Holy Spirit being our earnest. “Earnest” in the Hebrew means a pledge or part of the purchase-money or property given in advance as security for the rest. If the Holy Spirit is just a part of what is going to be given to us then I can’t imagine what the rest is going to be. The Holy Spirit teaches us, leads us, reveals hidden mysteries to us, comforts us, speaks to us and does a whole host of other things. One day we will be able to speak to Jesus face to face and He will teach us himself and lead us and share with us the mysteries of the kingdom. That will be a great and glorious time. Lord, thank you for the gift of the Holy Spirit. We look forward to the day we will behold you face to face.