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Job’s God was not running for office … He was God and that was that. Yet, questions lingered in the silence.

In one of His last earthly human deeds, Jesus presided over an adoption,

One exalted himself and was humbled. Jesus humbled Himself and was exalted.And both wore purple.

The psalmist either had a short sighted view of God, an over-inflated sense of his own righteousness (and that f his people), a limited perspective, all of the above, some of the above mixed together, or an insight into how things are in the real world — that both the righteous and the unrighteous suffer.…

Hope looms like a nagging word of encouragement, a persistent promise of purpose. Hope looms until it takes center stage..

“Now is the Son of man glorified and God is glorified in Him.” – from John 13:31 You have to take it all as a package or there is no glory. Jesus understood that these final days were one great redemptive event – from mingling with the crowds and teaching them, to provoking the Sanhedrin…

We keep running and focusing … laying aside all of the distractions and pressing on.There is a prize and the One who holds the prize is anxious to see us at the finished line.

Father, in the light of all that has happened and is happening, I am at loss. I want to say that I am shocked, dismayed, disgusted, indignant, sorrowful, grieving, broken, and horrified. What bothers me most is that I am not … not the way I think is appropriate, not enough to keep me from…