{"id":7093,"date":"2020-01-07T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T03:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2020-01-05T19:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T02:22:03","slug":"job5_17-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/job5_17-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick Out the Good from the Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Job 5:17-27 Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Job 5:17-27.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

On verses 17-27:\u00a0\u00a0Eliphaz concludes his speech with words that sound like they could come from the book of Psalms, Proverbs or the Old Testament prophets.\u00a0\u00a0Eliphaz\u2019s message to Job is not to despise the Lord\u2019s discipline (v17), but to treat his discipline as a blessing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Eliphaz\u2019s encouragement to Job is that if Job will have the right attitude toward the hardship he is going through, he will ultimately be restored, healed (v18), rescued (v19), delivered (v20), protected (v21), enjoy great peace (v22-24) and be very fruitful (v25-26).<\/p>\n

Eliphaz\u2019s message dovetails with other passages in the Bible like:<\/p>\n

Proverbs 3:11-12 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0My son, do not despise the\u00a0LORD’s discipline and do not resent his rebuke,
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0because the\u00a0LORD\u00a0disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.<\/em><\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

Hebrews 12:7, 11 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.<\/em><\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0This is the one part of Eliphaz\u2019s speech that might be helpful to Job.\u00a0\u00a0Though Eliphaz still wrongly assumed that Job was suffering because of Job\u2019s sin, Eliphaz was right to encourage Job to persevere and to believe that God\u2019s help and healing are on the way.\u00a0\u00a0What I learn from this is that\u00a0sometimes when listening to others, we need to the pick out the good from the bad<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0When a person comes to you with words that are difficult to hear, where much of what they are saying may be wrong or ill-founded, try to find something that is helpful from what they are saying instead of throwing everything out immediately.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Remember that even a broken clock is right twice a day.<\/p>\n

When you choose to pick what is helpful and true from a difficult conversation, you maximize the opportunity to learn and grow from that experience.<\/p>\n

Of course, it would be foolish and wrong to take that approach with God.\u00a0\u00a0We can\u2019t pick and choose what we want to listen to and obey from God\u2019s Word.\u00a0\u00a0But when it comes to people, sometimes we need to do just that, since none of us is perfect.
\nHeavenly Father, when people are saying things that seem very wrong, inaccurate or foolish to me, please give me discernment to pick out the good from the bad.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Job 5:17-27.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

On verses 17-27:\u00a0\u00a0Eliphaz concludes his speech with words that sound like they could come from the book of Psalms, Proverbs or the Old Testament prophets.\u00a0\u00a0Eliphaz\u2019s message to Job is not to despise the Lord\u2019s discipline (v17), but to treat his discipline as a blessing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Eliphaz\u2019s encouragement to Job is that if Job will have the right attitude toward the hardship he is going through, he will ultimately be restored, healed (v18), rescued (v19), delivered (v20), protected (v21), enjoy great peace (v22-24) and be very fruitful (v25-26).<\/p>\n

Eliphaz\u2019s message dovetails with other passages in the Bible like:<\/p>\n

Proverbs 3:11-12 (NIV)\u00a0
\n11\u00a0\u00a0My son, do not despise the\u00a0LORD’s discipline and do not resent his rebuke,
\n12\u00a0\u00a0because the\u00a0LORD\u00a0disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7096,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions\/7096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}