Scripture Union Daily Guide – 17 September 2025: Today’s Devotional Reading and Reflection – Wednesday
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TOPIC: A plea for comfort
Opening Prayer
Dear Lord, may the entrance of your word bring light and life to all I will do today.
Scripture Reading
Job 16:1-22
Questions for Meditation
► Q2: Is there any example for me to follow or not to follow?
► Q7: What truth is God revealing to me in this passage?
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Job expressed his frustration with his friends and with God. He was tired of listening to the same old sermons (Job 16:2a). We need to know that there is a great difference between mere words and words of comfort. If our words do not express compassion, sympathy, tenderness, and affection, and do not comfort, alleviate, relieve, and help those in pain, they will amount to mere “blowing hot air” (Job 16:3a) and we will be miserable comforters (Job 15:2b). What can we learn from Job in Job 16:4-5? Before we comment on other people’s situations, we should think of how we would want to be treated, if the situation were reversed (Matthew 7:12).
Read Job 16:7-14 again and take note of seven graphic images that Job used to describe how he felt about his suffering. Do we also sometimes say things like these about God? Job said very loudly what many of us say quietly in our hearts. Job pleaded his innocence (Job 16:15-18) and cried out for an advocate (Job 17:19-22). When experiencing unbearable pain, suffering, and repeated tragedies, let’s remember that we have an Advocate who cares (1 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 7:25).
And so
When you don’t know what to say, don’t say anything! Silence can be golden when it comes to comforting those who are hurting.
Insight
* Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
Closing Prayer
Dear Lord Jesus, in times of pain, let me know You as my Comforter and Advocate.
Prayer of Faith
Offer a prayer of faith in line with Matthew 8:16-17
One Year Bible Reading Plan
Daniel 5-6; Job 3; Psalms 119:49-72.
One Year Bible Reading Plan – Hard Copy version
Ezra 1-3
National Prayer Bulletin – Wed Sep 17, 2025
PRAYER FOCUS
BEING WITH JESUS
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John,…,they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. Acts 4:13
THANK GOD FOR:
* The transformative power of His presence
PRAY FOR:
* Insatiable hunger and thirst after the Lord by every one of us • The Lord to teach us the secret of being with him • Him to transform us, and make us agents of his transformation
PRAY AGAINST:
* Spiritual lethargy and all terms of distraction from communion with him
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