{"id":5058,"date":"2023-10-06T20:34:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T01:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=5058"},"modified":"2023-10-06T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T01:34:52","slug":"devotional-on-job-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-job-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-EdB3sMe8F4I\/Xx3k_cT7XLI\/AAAAAAABFnc\/_dnhEhFrx00ZMWb0u0c1oN5WR9JLwZbbACPcBGAsYHg\/s1600\/IMG_20190810_130938.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"906\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2019 &#8211; Watkins Glen, NY State Park<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nJob one, Satan nothing<br \/>\nJob 1: God gives, God takes. God&#8217;s name be ever blessed.<br \/>\nAs round one of Job\u2019s trials concludes we find Job a heartbroken man. Everything\u2019s gone, including his children. Job\u2019s in shock and deep mourning. In this midst of his pain, he falls to the ground &#8212; and worships! The test is to see if a man will serve God &#8220;for nothing&#8221; and, as this round of testing ends, we find Job still worshiping God! His worship doesn\u2019t consist of his shrugging off all that has happened. After all, the pain is real. His actions declare the depth of his pain yet his words carry a philosophic tone. Job declares, &#8220;I entered with world with nothing and that&#8217;s how I&#8217;ll leave.&#8221; Does Job serve God for nothing? Job&#8217;s answer is &#8220;God gives, God takes. God&#8217;s name be ever blessed.&#8221;<br \/>\nTake Away: Job trusts in the Lord even when everything falls apart. Does that describe us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job one, Satan nothing Job 1: God gives, God takes. God&#8217;s name be ever blessed. As round one of Job\u2019s trials concludes we find Job a heartbroken man. Everything\u2019s gone, including his children. Job\u2019s in shock and deep mourning. In this midst of his pain, he falls to the ground &#8212; and worships! The test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1505,7],"tags":[133,342,798,1049,1108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14717,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions\/14717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}