Scripture Union Daily Guide – 23 August 2025: Today’s Devotional Reading and Reflection – Saturday
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TOPIC: Human wisdom is good, but…
Opening Prayer
May the meditation of my heart be acceptable unto you, O Lord as I read from your word.
Scripture Reading
Job 5:1-27
5 Call out. Will anyone answer you?
To which holy one will you turn?
2 Surely anger can kill the foolish;
fury can kill the simple.
3 I’ve seen the foolish take root
and promptly curse their house.
4 Their children are far[a] from safety,
crushed in the gate without a deliverer.
5 The hungry devour[b] their crops;
it’s taken even from the thorns,[c]
and the thirsty pant after their yield.
6 Surely trouble doesn’t come from dust,
nor does distress sprout from the ground.
7 Surely humans are born to distress,
just as sparks rise up.
8 But I would seek God,
put my case to God,
9 who does great things beyond comprehension,
wonderful things without number;
10 who provides rain over the earth’s surface,
sends water to the open country,
11 exalts the lowly,
raises mourners to victory;
12 who frustrates the schemes of the clever
so that their hands achieve no success,
13 trapping the wise in their cleverness
so that the plans of the devious don’t succeed.
14 They encounter darkness during the day,
and at noon they fumble about as at night.
15 Yet he rescues the orphan[d] from the sword of their mouth,
the needy from the grip of the strong;
16 so the poor have hope
and violence shuts its mouth.
17 Look, happy is the person whom God corrects;
so don’t reject the Almighty’s instruction.
18 He injures, but he binds up;
he strikes, but his hands heal.
19 From six adversities he will deliver you;
from seven harm won’t touch you.
20 In famine he will ransom you from death;
in war, from the power of the sword.
21 You will be hidden from the tongue’s sting,
and you won’t fear destruction when it comes.
22 You will laugh at destruction and hunger;
you won’t be afraid of wild beasts;
23 for you will make an agreement with the stones of the field;
and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.
24 You will know that your tent is secure.
You will examine your home and miss nothing.
25 You will know that you’ll have many children.
Your offspring will be like the grass of the earth.
26 You will come to your grave in old age
as bundles of grain stacked up at harvesttime.
27 Look, we’ve searched this out, and so it is;
listen and find out for yourself.
Question for Meditation
► Q 1: What does the passage teach about God the Father, or God the Son or God the Holy Spirit?
Scripture Union Daily Guide – 23 August 2025: Outline
As Eliphaz continues his discourse, we can see that he is a man full of godly wisdom and vast human experience. Who can dispute the reality of Job 5:2,3 or Job 5:7, for example? Look at how he illustrates the beautiful truth in Job 5:9 with examples of the wonderful works of God’s grace and justice and love in Job 5:10-16. In Job 5:17, however, he caps it all with a combination of his brilliant godly insight and his human, misplaced counsel!
“Blessed is the one God corrects” Job 5:17).
This is a statement inspired by the Spirit of God; and we have the second part expanded for us in the Book of Proverbs 3:11-12) and explained in the New Testament (Hebrews 12:5-11). Similarly, Eliphaz continues in Job 5:18 onwards, with insightful attributes of the God we worship and what He does for His faithful children.
The problem is with the opening and closing sentences of the chapter, and they both demonstrate Eliphaz’s human limitation. He starts by saying that no one would answer Job (because of his sins) and closes by applying lessons on how God deals with sinners to Job. He was wrong in both.
And So
Pray for the Holy Spirit’s help to handle the truth of God’s word faithfully.
Food for Thought
We sometimes attribute true Bible promises wrongly to ourselves, usually by ignoring the conditions in the full verse and context (e.g. Deuteronomy 28:13). Can you think of other examples?
Insight
* Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
One Year Bible Reading Plan
Jeremiah 40-42.
One Year Bible Reading Plan – Hard Copy version: Jeremiah 49-50
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN 23RD AUGUST 2025
PRAYER FOCUS
THE MINISTERS
“He makes his angels spirit, and his ministers flames of fire”. Psalm 104:4
THANK GOD FOR:
* All the ministers who by divine permission have been given the privilege to minister during this convention • God’s grace upon them all
PRAY FOR:
* The Expositor; that the hand of the lord will be great on him, to bring the mind of God to us. • Strength and sound mind for him all through • Strength and grace for all other ministers, that they will minister under the unction of the Holy Ghost • They will be sanctified vessels through whom the power of God will flow • God’s power to be poured forth to save, heal, deliver, encourage and strengthen.
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