Sue J Love
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“But He knows the way I take;
When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
My foot has held fast to His path;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.
I have not departed from the command of His lips;
I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.” (Job 23:10-12 NASB1995)
God’s servant Job was a righteous man who feared God and who walked in obedience to his commands. But God allowed Satan to test this godly man. First his animals and many of his servants were killed. Then his sons and his daughters were killed. But what was Job’s response? He mourned their deaths but he worshipped God. He said, “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” And the Scripture says, “Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God.” (see Job 1:1-22).
But then God allowed Satan to test Job even more. And so Satan smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. But when his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!,” he replied, “Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” And then the Scripture says, “In all this Job did not sin with his lips.” And although his friends initially consoled him in his suffering, then they began accusing him of sinning against God as the reason for his suffering. And so he and his friends talked back and forth (Job chaps. 2-37).
But Job was not perfect in all of his responses to his persecutors who were judging him falsely and who were accusing him of sinning against God as being the reason for his suffering. So, God then began to speak to Job (beginning in chapter 38, I believe). And he corrected Job on some things that he got wrong. But Job was not wrong about the fact that his suffering was not because of sin in his life, for he was a godly man who worshipped and served the Lord with his life, and who was righteous in the eyes of God. But Job repented of what he had wrong:
Then Job answered the Lord and said,
“I know that You can do all things,
And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.
‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.”
‘Hear, now, and I will speak;
I will ask You, and You instruct me.’
“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear;
But now my eye sees You;
Therefore I retract,
And I repent in dust and ashes.” (Job 42:1-6 NASB1995)
Was Job a righteous and a godly man? Yes, he was. Was he deserving of the suffering that he went through? i.e. did he do something to deserve what all he suffered? No, he didn’t. His suffering was not the result of sin in his life. Did he initially have the correct responses to his suffering? Yes, he did. But as things got much worse, and as his friends continually tried to convince him that his suffering was a result of sin, then he didn’t do as well, and I believe he began to question God, and so God had to rebuke him on that matter. But Job then repented, and God honored him for speaking the truth.
But what I believe the Lord wants me to focus on here is Job’s words in chapter 23 where he described his relationship with the Lord. He said that his foot had held fast to the path of God, that he had kept the ways of the Lord, and that he had not turned aside from them. He said that he had not departed from the commands of God’s lips, but that he treasured the words of the mouth of the Lord more than his necessary food. And this is the life of a Christian which God desires of all of us, that we should walk in his ways and in his truth, and that we should obey his commands and speak truth.
And the truth which he wants all of us to speak is the truth of His Word as he taught it in its pure sense. He wants us to be sharing the truth of the gospel with the people of the world and with the worldly church for their salvation from their bondage (addiction) to sin so that they can now serve God with their lives in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. And he wants us to keep speaking his truth even while being tested and tried and falsely accused of wrong we did not do, and even if all our friends turn against us and we go through tremendous suffering for our walks of faith.
And we need to be telling people the truth of the gospel, in opposition to the lies which are so popular today, because there are so many people without faith in the Lord Jesus who will die in their sins because they did not repent of their sins, and they did not die to sin, and they are not now walking in obedience to the Lord and to his commands. For the truth says that if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to our Lord, that we will not have eternal life with God, regardless of what faith in him we profess with our lips. So it is critical that we should be telling people the truth for their salvation.
[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]
A Missionary Cry
By Albert B. Simpson
Melody by J.H. Burke
A hundred thousand souls a day
Are passing one by one away
In Christless guilt and gloom;
Without one ray of hope or light,
With future dark as endless night,
They’re passing to their doom.
The Master’s coming draweth near;
The Son of Man will soon appear;
His kingdom is at hand.
But ere that glorious day can be,
This gospel of the kingdom we
Must preach in every land.
Oh, let us then His coming haste,
Oh, let us end this awful waste
Of souls that never die.
A thousand millions still are lost;
A Savior’s blood has paid the cost,
Oh, hear their dying cry.
They’re passing, passing, fast away,
A hundred thousand souls a day
In Christless guilt and gloom.
O Church of Christ, what wilt thou say
When, in the awful judgment day,
They charge thee with their doom?
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I Have Treasured the Words of His Mouth
An Original Work / March 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
My foot has held fast to His path;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.
I have not departed from the command of His lips;
I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.” (Job 23:10-12 NASB1995)
God’s servant Job was a righteous man who feared God and who walked in obedience to his commands. But God allowed Satan to test this godly man. First his animals and many of his servants were killed. Then his sons and his daughters were killed. But what was Job’s response? He mourned their deaths but he worshipped God. He said, “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” And the Scripture says, “Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God.” (see Job 1:1-22).
But then God allowed Satan to test Job even more. And so Satan smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. But when his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!,” he replied, “Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” And then the Scripture says, “In all this Job did not sin with his lips.” And although his friends initially consoled him in his suffering, then they began accusing him of sinning against God as the reason for his suffering. And so he and his friends talked back and forth (Job chaps. 2-37).
But Job was not perfect in all of his responses to his persecutors who were judging him falsely and who were accusing him of sinning against God as being the reason for his suffering. So, God then began to speak to Job (beginning in chapter 38, I believe). And he corrected Job on some things that he got wrong. But Job was not wrong about the fact that his suffering was not because of sin in his life, for he was a godly man who worshipped and served the Lord with his life, and who was righteous in the eyes of God. But Job repented of what he had wrong:
Then Job answered the Lord and said,
“I know that You can do all things,
And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.
‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.”
‘Hear, now, and I will speak;
I will ask You, and You instruct me.’
“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear;
But now my eye sees You;
Therefore I retract,
And I repent in dust and ashes.” (Job 42:1-6 NASB1995)
Was Job a righteous and a godly man? Yes, he was. Was he deserving of the suffering that he went through? i.e. did he do something to deserve what all he suffered? No, he didn’t. His suffering was not the result of sin in his life. Did he initially have the correct responses to his suffering? Yes, he did. But as things got much worse, and as his friends continually tried to convince him that his suffering was a result of sin, then he didn’t do as well, and I believe he began to question God, and so God had to rebuke him on that matter. But Job then repented, and God honored him for speaking the truth.
But what I believe the Lord wants me to focus on here is Job’s words in chapter 23 where he described his relationship with the Lord. He said that his foot had held fast to the path of God, that he had kept the ways of the Lord, and that he had not turned aside from them. He said that he had not departed from the commands of God’s lips, but that he treasured the words of the mouth of the Lord more than his necessary food. And this is the life of a Christian which God desires of all of us, that we should walk in his ways and in his truth, and that we should obey his commands and speak truth.
And the truth which he wants all of us to speak is the truth of His Word as he taught it in its pure sense. He wants us to be sharing the truth of the gospel with the people of the world and with the worldly church for their salvation from their bondage (addiction) to sin so that they can now serve God with their lives in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. And he wants us to keep speaking his truth even while being tested and tried and falsely accused of wrong we did not do, and even if all our friends turn against us and we go through tremendous suffering for our walks of faith.
And we need to be telling people the truth of the gospel, in opposition to the lies which are so popular today, because there are so many people without faith in the Lord Jesus who will die in their sins because they did not repent of their sins, and they did not die to sin, and they are not now walking in obedience to the Lord and to his commands. For the truth says that if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to our Lord, that we will not have eternal life with God, regardless of what faith in him we profess with our lips. So it is critical that we should be telling people the truth for their salvation.
[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]
A Missionary Cry
By Albert B. Simpson
Melody by J.H. Burke
A hundred thousand souls a day
Are passing one by one away
In Christless guilt and gloom;
Without one ray of hope or light,
With future dark as endless night,
They’re passing to their doom.
The Master’s coming draweth near;
The Son of Man will soon appear;
His kingdom is at hand.
But ere that glorious day can be,
This gospel of the kingdom we
Must preach in every land.
Oh, let us then His coming haste,
Oh, let us end this awful waste
Of souls that never die.
A thousand millions still are lost;
A Savior’s blood has paid the cost,
Oh, hear their dying cry.
They’re passing, passing, fast away,
A hundred thousand souls a day
In Christless guilt and gloom.
O Church of Christ, what wilt thou say
When, in the awful judgment day,
They charge thee with their doom?
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I Have Treasured the Words of His Mouth
An Original Work / March 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
