You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth.
Job 30:27
27 My bowels [me`ah] boiled [rathach], and rested [damam] not:
the days [yowm] of affliction [`oniy] prevented [qadam] me. KJV-Interlinear
27 'I am seething within, and
cannot relax; Days of affliction
confront me. NASB
The word for bowels is a reference to the emotions of
the person. The word for prevented,
means anticipation, or someone or something that waits in anticipation of you
and then pounces on you when the time is right.
This is Jobs present condition. This is in the
present, not the past and not the future.
Under suffering, which is allowed by God, but brought on by things,
which follow the pattern of thought of Satan, there is no help.
Without God in ones life, the only result is an
overwhelming of ones emotions. Emotions
are not a part of the thinking process but a reaction or a response to ones
environment or condition. Emotions
cannot lift things, cannot think, cannot get things done.
When ones emotions overtake you, then the anxieties, the
pressures, the feelings should teach you that you are not and are never in
control over the things which the world can throws against you.
Job expresses the emotions of helplessness.
But more than that.
These emotions, this condition, which Job is in, was not anticipated by
him, but was anticipated by his condition, as though a disease or a disaster
has the ability to think or conspire against humanity.
Your best laid plans, regardless of your resources in
life, are subject to ambush. No matter
how smart, no matter how talented, no matter how rich, no matter how arrogant
you are, this world is way ahead of you.
In a chess game, it knows the last move, while you are just beginning
your first.
Most people of the world will live in poverty or a middle
class condition at best. Life will never
be what they want. Some people advance
to fabulous wealth, and still, in this world, they will discover that life is
not going to be what they want. Death,
even a disease, overrules everything you can anticipate or prepare for.
And again, the Bible teaches that if you disregard
your daily Bible study, you are the fool.
The fool for refusing to look at, acknowledge, refusing to accept its
warnings.
Now is the time to post a prayer.
End Of Lesson
Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth.
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