[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR FRIDAY JUNE 3

[Donnie Parrett]

DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR FRIDAY June 3

WORD OF WISDOM

You don't have to have a parachute to jump out of an airplane. You just need
one if you want to jump again.

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DAILY DEVOTION

True Fellowship with God


One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may
dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty
of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble he
shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide
me; he shall set me up upon a rock. And now shall mine head be lifted up
above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle
sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
Psalm 27:4-6

David lived long before Christ's coming and long before the Holy Spirit came
to dwell within believers on an ongoing basis. Even so, David knew the power
of God on his life and saw the Lord work in miraculous ways over and over.
Yet what David wanted more than anything was to experience the closeness of
God—a relationship that was deep and personal. He expressed that desire as a
wish to live continually in God's house. Of course, for us the relationship
with God is very different. We do not have to go to a special place to
experience God's presence. We have it as part of our inheritance as members
of His family through salvation. Yet how often do we allow the busyness of
life to rob of us that close fellowship we must have?
George Müller said, “The primary business I must attend to every day is to
fellowship with the Lord. The first concern is not how much I might serve
the Lord, but how my inner man might be nourished. I may share the truth
with the unconverted; I may try to encourage believers; I may relieve the
distressed; or I may, in other ways, seek to behave as a child of God; yet,
not being happy in the Lord and not being nourished and strengthened in my
inner man day by day may result in this work being done in a wrong spirit.”
God must be first place in our hearts and minds if we are to live and love
Him as we should.

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DAILY BIBLE READING

Job 40-42 New King James Version
God’s Power and Wisdom
40 Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said:

2 “Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him?
He who rebukes God, let him answer it.”

Job’s Response to God
3 Then Job answered the Lord and said:

4 “Behold, I am vile;
What shall I answer You?
I lay my hand over my mouth.
5 Once I have spoken, but I will not answer;
Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

God’s Challenge to Job
6 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:

7 “Now [a]prepare yourself like a man;
I will question you, and you shall answer Me:

8 “Would you indeed [b]annul My judgment?
Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?
9 Have you an arm like God?
Or can you thunder with a voice like His?
10 Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor,
And array yourself with glory and beauty.
11 Disperse the rage of your wrath;
Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him.
12 Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low;
Tread down the wicked in their place.
13 Hide them in the dust together,
Bind their faces in hidden darkness.
14 Then I will also confess to you
That your own right hand can save you.

15 “Look now at the [c]behemoth, which I made along with you;
He eats grass like an ox.
16 See now, his strength is in his hips,
And his power is in his stomach muscles.
17 He moves his tail like a cedar;
The sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
18 His bones are like beams of bronze,
His ribs like bars of iron.
19 He is the first of the ways of God;
Only He who made him can bring near His sword.
20 Surely the mountains yield food for him,
And all the beasts of the field play there.
21 He lies under the lotus trees,
In a covert of reeds and marsh.
22 The lotus trees cover him with their shade;
The willows by the brook surround him.
23 Indeed the river may rage,
Yet he is not disturbed;
He is confident, though the Jordan gushes into his mouth,
24 Though he takes it in his eyes,
Or one pierces his nose with a snare.

God’s Power in the Leviathan
41 “Can you draw out Leviathan[d] with a hook,
Or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?
2 Can you put a reed through his nose,
Or pierce his jaw with a [e]hook?
3 Will he make many supplications to you?
Will he speak softly to you?
4 Will he make a covenant with you?
Will you take him as a servant forever?
5 Will you play with him as with a bird,
Or will you leash him for your maidens?
6 Will your companions [f]make a banquet of him?
Will they apportion him among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?
8 Lay your hand on him;
Remember the battle—
Never do it again!
9 Indeed, any hope of overcoming him is false;
Shall one not be overwhelmed at the sight of him?
10 No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up.
Who then is able to stand against Me?
11 Who has preceded Me, that I should pay him?
Everything under heaven is Mine.

12 “I will not [g]conceal his limbs,
His mighty power, or his graceful proportions.
13 Who can [h]remove his outer coat?
Who can approach him with a double bridle?
14 Who can open the doors of his face,
With his terrible teeth all around?
15 His rows of [i]scales are his pride,
Shut up tightly as with a seal;
16 One is so near another
That no air can come between them;
17 They are joined one to another,
They stick together and cannot be parted.
18 His sneezings flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Out of his mouth go burning lights;
Sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke goes out of his nostrils,
As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
21 His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes out of his mouth.
22 Strength dwells in his neck,
And [j]sorrow dances before him.
23 The folds of his flesh are joined together;
They are firm on him and cannot be moved.
24 His heart is as hard as stone,
Even as hard as the lower millstone.
25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid;
Because of his crashings they [k]are beside themselves.
26 Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail;
Nor does spear, dart, or javelin.
27 He regards iron as straw,
And bronze as rotten wood.
28 The arrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones become like stubble to him.
29 Darts are regarded as straw;
He laughs at the threat of javelins.
30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds;
He spreads pointed marks in the mire.
31 He makes the deep boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 He leaves a shining wake behind him;
One would think the deep had white hair.
33 On earth there is nothing like him,
Which is made without fear.
34 He beholds every high thing;
He is king over all the children of pride.”

Job’s Repentance and Restoration
42 Then Job answered the Lord and said:

2 “I know that You can do everything,
And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
4 Listen, please, and let me speak;
You said, ‘I will question you, and you shall answer Me.’

5 “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear,
But now my eye sees You.
6 Therefore I abhor[l] myself,
And repent in dust and ashes.”

7 And so it was, after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord
said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is aroused against you and your two
friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.
8 Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My
servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant
Job shall pray for you. For I will accept [m]him, lest I deal with you
according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as
My servant Job has.”

9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite
went and did as the Lord commanded them; for the Lord had [n]accepted Job.
10 And the Lord [o]restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends.
Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then all his
brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances
before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled
him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon
him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold.

12 Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for
he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of
oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. 13 He also had seven sons and three
daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first [p]Jemimah, the name of
the second [q]Keziah, and the name of the third [r]Keren-Happuch. 15 In all
the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their
father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

16 After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children
and grandchildren for four generations. 17 So Job died, old and full of
days.

Footnotes
Job 40:7 Lit. gird up your loins
Job 40:8 nullify
Job 40:15 A large animal, exact identity unknown
Job 41:1 A large sea creature, exact identity unknown
Job 41:2 thorn
Job 41:6 Or bargain over him
Job 41:12 Lit. keep silent about
Job 41:13 Lit. take off the face of his garment
Job 41:15 Lit. shields
Job 41:22 despair
Job 41:25 Or purify themselves
Job 42:6 despise
Job 42:8 Lit. his face
Job 42:9 Lit. lifted up the face of Job
Job 42:10 Lit. turned the captivity of Job, what was captured from Job
Job 42:14 Lit. Handsome as the Day
Job 42:14 Cassia, a fragrance
Job 42:14 Lit. The Horn of Color or The Colorful Ray