February 23, 2026
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Reading along with us in Job & Hebrews? Here’s today’s reading:
Job 14 (NIV)
1“Mortals, born of woman,
are of few days and full of trouble.
2 They spring up like flowers and wither away;
like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.
3 Do you fix your eye on them?……Continue Reading
Next: Hebrews 12
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Back: Job 13
Good reading. Job explains life Sickness. Loneliness. Disappointment. Job. Life’s not fair. Lately. I am overwhelmed at so much sickness and what doesn’t seem fair. But the difference between Job and us. Jesus has come with all his promises. The best of all is John 14. He is going to prepare a place for us!! Or you. 14:19. Because I live. You also will live. Truer words never been spoken.!! That’s what we have waiting for us. Eternal life. Job didn’t have that. Jesus had not come. So he is pessimistic about life after death.
Psalm 78; Job 9-14; Ezekiel 9; Hebrews 10-11
Pastor Peter. Did the Old Testament say much about resurrection of the dead. ?
As far as I remember, there is not much said about it. But there was an understanding that the righteous would go to Abraham’s bosom. A place I would imagine would be associated with the presence of God.
Job continues his desperate lament. It is the reality that beyond most trouble, physical pain can be the thing that takes us to the darkest places. Job feels seperated from God and wonders if this will ever end. My heart breaks for Job at this point but we need to trust God that there is always a plan, always a bigger picture, and He can bring beauty out of ashes!
Job 13 & 14
Job 14
It is not wise to asses life, God or God’s activity on the basis of tragedy, and yet it is very easy to do. Job sees all that has happened to Him and because God is the reference point for everything, he has to declare things about God as defined by what has happened. It is presumptuous (only because we know the back story), despairing and also understandable. He morns of his life and sees the hopeless of man that he lives and dies and there is nothing. We know better, but it is not a confident assurance for Job. If his life is in God’s hands, Job reasons, then He is certainly being harsh to him and so it would be better to be in the grave and be done with it all. We have to be careful of thoughts like this and remember all the things God is, what He has done and is doing, all the things He declares about us, and all the things He promises for the future.
Job 14
“Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass.”
Job 14:5 NKJV
Job 13 & 14