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Chuck Swindoll’s ‘Insight for Today’ Daily Devotional is here. Insight for Today provides practical, relevant insight into today’s issues with Biblical principles applied. This devotional will help you connect with God on a daily basis, while also equipping you with a Bible-based approach to transforming your everyday life. Insight for Today” is a daily devotional written by Chuck Swindoll.
The Topic of Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional 12th February 2024 is “No Surprise”.
Scriptures: Job 26:1–14
TODAY’S INSIGHT – 12TH FEBRUARY 2024.
“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the weak!
How you have enlightened my stupidity! What wise advice you have offered!
Where have you gotten all these wise sayings? Whose spirit speaks through you?” (Job 26:2–4)
What Job lacked here in tact, he made up for in total honesty. Frankly, this was no time for tact. Bildad has been brutal. It’s doubtful he would even hear if Job had been soft and diplomatic. Job gets tough!
Sores will do that to you. Any nurse will tell you, especially those who work at the bedside of patients in great pain, that tact fades as pain progresses. There’s something about the continuation of anguish that finally wears a soul down to raw, red reality.
Many years ago I came across this statement: “Pain plants the flag of reality in the fortress of a rebel heart.” Even among those who have been stubborn and rebellious, when pain hits and persists, reality comes in full measure. So it was with Job. He took off the gloves, looked into Bildad’s eyes, and said it straight. The man needed that kind of response.
There’s a little prayer I’d suggest you repeat each morning.
Lord, help me today not to add to anybody’s burden. Help me to bring encouragement to others. Where I can, enable me to comfort. And when I don’t know, help me to admit it. When I feel sorrow and sympathy for someone, help me to say that. Help me to lift the load of the hurting, not to add to their burden.
If others are going through an agonizing experience, they need us to be supportive and strong. Bildad never learned that principle; he never prayed that prayer. Too bad.
An intriguing change of roles now occurs. Instead of Bildad teaching Job, Job becomes the teacher. It’s almost as if he decides, “Since you don’t have any answers, let me tell you about the infinite, incomprehensible God, who hasn’t revealed all the whys and wherefores of His activities.”
From verse 5 through verse 13 of chapter 26, Job takes Bildad through the paces. He communicates what we would call a fascinating, cosmological explanation. Amazingly, Job starts with the departed spirits of the dead then goes all the way to the top of the universe. In a simple, straightforward manner, Job is saying, “God is in control of every bit of it. He knows about it, He understands it, He is in the midst of it, and He takes full responsibility for all of it. None of it is a surprise to the living God.”
About Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional “Today’s Insight”.
Today’s Insight is written by Chucks Swindoll. Chuck Swindoll has devoted his life to the accurate, practical teaching and application of God’s Word and His grace. Since 1988 he has served as the founder and senior pastor-teacher of Stonebriar Community Church in Texas, but his listening audience extends far beyond a local church body. The radio broadcast of this devotional program has aired for more than 35 years. Read more.
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