{"id":2218,"date":"2020-05-13T07:49:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2020-05-13T07:49:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T15:49:58","slug":"devotion-job-18-blameless-and-upright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2218","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Job 1:8 Blameless and Upright"},"content":{"rendered":"

Job 1:8\u00a0<\/b>–\u00a0\u201cHave you considered my servant Job?\u00a0There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God\u00a0and shuns evil.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Psalm 51:10-12<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.\u00a0\u00a011<\/a>Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.\u00a0\u00a012<\/a>Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.<\/i><\/div>\n
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Romans 12:1-2<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Therefore, I urge you,\u00a0brothers and sisters, in view of God\u2019s mercy, to offer\u00a0<\/i>your bodies as a living sacrifice,\u00a0holy and pleasing to God\u2014this is your true and proper\u00a0<\/i>worship.\u00a02\u00a0Do not conform\u00a0to the pattern of this world,\u00a0but be transformed by the renewing of\u00a0<\/i>your mind.\u00a0Then you will be able to test and approve what God\u2019s will is\u2014his good,\u00a0<\/i>pleasing\u00a0and perfect will.<\/i><\/div>\n

Oh what a great thing for the Lord to say of a person that they are \u201cblameless and upright.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Delight of delights to be described by God as one who reverently knows Him with a personal knowledge that awakens a reverential fear of His might and power. What a rich gift from our God!\u00a0\u00a0Oh to know Him in ever increasing revelations causing us to be in such awe of Him, with understanding, causing us to walk ever closer to Him in a way that pleases Him.\u00a0\u00a0May we never be so proud, or so dull, as to be satisfied with our closeness to the Lord!\u00a0\u00a0Only the proud, the complacent and the dull think that there is a supposed closeness with God that is sufficient.\u00a0\u00a0Is it possible to love Jesus, to treasure Him, to have Him as one\u2019s highest treasure and to be cry \u201cEnough!\u00a0\u00a0No more!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Can one really know, did one ever know, the beauty of the Lord and then be able to say \u201cEnough of You God!\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t need or desire more of You?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Or are we so foolish as to having once loved with fiery passion, to then walk away and let the fire become lukewarm?\u00a0\u00a0(Revelation 3:16<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0God forbid!\u00a0\u00a0May we be the Lord\u2019s burning bush that ever burns and is a perpetual witness for Him.\u00a0\u00a0May our cry always be \u201cLord, fan the flames of Your fire upon me!\u201d<\/p>\n

Please Lord, grant to us to walk this journey in a way that pleases You.\u00a0\u00a0Oh God teach us so that we may be fulfilled and that we may shun evil and please you.\u00a0\u00a0Lord God Almighty if You teach us then we know that we know.<\/p>\n

May our God teach us to walk as He stated in\u00a0Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0\u201cHe has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0May we do rightly before Him because He has made us to be like Him.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Teach us to be just to each other.\u00a0\u00a0Oh Lord, please, every morning, mold us to be more merciful.\u00a0\u00a0Having received Your mercy, may we always richly treasure it and may the evidence of that be mercy flowing through us to those around us.\u00a0\u00a0May another never have their hands on the valve that controls the outflow of mercy from us, but may it be locked open so that mercy will perpetually flow.<\/p>\n

May the flow of God\u2019s love and mercy be so strong in us that when a boulder called offence attempts to stop or slow the flow, the raging river of His love and mercy through us immediately washes it away.<\/p>\n

The Lord desires us to be righteous, but not for His sake, but for ours.\u00a0\u00a0Being made righteous and living in His righteousness is our completing and our fulfilling.\u00a0\u00a0Us being righteous does not add to God, perfection needs nothing.\u00a0\u00a0It is His love for us that leads us to His righteousness.\u00a0\u00a0We are most fulfilled and completed when the core of who we are is like Him.\u00a0\u00a0Walking with Jesus, in full recognition of Him with us, the joy of our salvation sings through every part of us. Oh Lord, please keep us ravenous for You!\u00a0\u00a0You Lord are our salvation and our joy!\u00a0\u00a0Only through you may we be blameless and upright.\u00a0\u00a0Forever we praise You!<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/div>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Job 1:8\u00a0–\u00a0\u201cHave you considered my servant Job?\u00a0There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God\u00a0and shuns evil.\u201d Psalm 51:10-12\u00a0–\u00a0Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.\u00a0\u00a011Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.\u00a0\u00a012Restore…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[1849,94,1874,17,711,10],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-job","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-psalm","tag-revelation","tag-romans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}