I don’t suppose it’s a New Year’s Resolution, but I have chosen to read through my Bible chronologically this year.  There is an app on my phone that makes this easier than trying to divide it up myself.  Naturally, the first couple of days I read in the book of Genesis, up until chapter eleven.  There was then a gap between Genesis eleven and twelve, which put me in the book of Job.  One advantage to reading this way is that I end up reading accounts side by side that are several books apart.

In Job 23:10, he writes, “But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.”  We all know the story of Job.  Everything, save his own life, was suddenly stripped away from him at once.  God allowed Job to suffer trials during a season of his life.  Also, this testing was not the result of any wrong doing on the part of Job.  Bible commentator Matthew Henry said, Read more…