Look inside this book.Where the Bush is Burning: A Daily Devotional by [Thomas Tice]

Tag: Job 42

In Dust And Ashes

In Dust And Ashes

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I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. 

Job 42:5-6 

A clear sight of Christ will give us a better understanding of ourselves. From the 38th chapter of Job through the end of Chapter 41, God speaks to Job directly, ‘out of the whirlwind.’ This is, in many respects analogous to Moses’ encounter of Christ at the burning bush. There Christ spoke from the bush. Here He speaks from the whirlwind. It is as much a Christophany as Moses, Joshua, and Isaiah experienced. Isaiah’s response to his sight of Christ is much to the same as Job’s. He says, ‘Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.’ When we have received a clear sight of Christ, we come to a much better understanding of ourselves. This is an intensely humbling experience. Seeing Christ leads us to abandon our self-righteousness. It brings us to abase ourselves and to magnify Christ. This has been the experience of everyone who has come face to face with Christ in whatever form He has chosen to reveal Himself. As we gain a clear sight of Christ it will have such an effect upon us as well. More of Christ makes for less of us. There is value in our afflictions as Christ uses them to show us more of God.  

Great God of Wonders, 
we rejoice that You reveal Yourself to us. 
We praise You that as You do, 
we see ourselves, and more importantly, we see Christ. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning
Now I See

Now I See

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I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. 

Job 42:5-6 

It is one thing to have heard of God. It is quite another thing to see Him. Job’s testimony was that prior to his afflictions he had heard of God, but that the result of his experiences was he saw God. This is a significant distinction because it indicates he recognized growth in his experience of God. Because of what we know about how God reveals Himself this brings us to Christ. John tells us, ‘No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.’ Job could not see God without beholding Christ, the only begotten Son. Christ is all there is to see of God. If we say we have seen God we must, of necessity, have seen Christ. We dare not sell the ancients short regarding their evangelical knowledge. He has such knowledge. Earlier on in the book he said, ‘For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!’ Therefore we conclude that Job’s increased knowledge of God involved Christ. We value this because we may endure many experiences which are difficult in every way. The end purpose of those experiences is to give us a greater knowledge of God by how He reveals Himself to us through Christ. 

God of Grace and Truth, 
we rejoice that You reveal Yourself to us. 
We praise You that Christ 
is all there is to see of You. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning

In Dust And Ashes

In Dust And Ashes

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I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. 

Job 42:5-6 

A clear sight of Christ will give us a better understanding of ourselves. From the 38th chapter of Job through the end of Chapter 41, God speaks to Job directly, ‘out of the whirlwind.’ This is, in many respects analogous to Moses’ encounter of Christ at the burning bush. There Christ spoke from the bush. Here He speaks from the whirlwind. It is as much a Christophany as Moses, Joshua, and Isaiah experienced. Isaiah’s response to his sight of Christ is much to the same as Job’s. He says, ‘Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.’ When we have received a clear sight of Christ, we come to a much better understanding of ourselves. This is an intensely humbling experience. Seeing Christ leads us to abandon our self-righteousness. It brings us to abase ourselves and to magnify Christ. This has been the experience of everyone who has come face to face with Christ in whatever form He has chosen to reveal Himself. As we gain a clear sight of Christ it will have such an effect upon us as well. More of Christ makes for less of us. There is value in our afflictions as Christ uses them to show us more of God.  

Great God of Wonders, 
we rejoice that You reveal Yourself to us. 
We praise You that as You do, 
we see ourselves, and more importantly, we see Christ. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning
Now I See

Now I See

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I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. 

Job 42:5-6 

It is one thing to have heard of God. It is quite another thing to see Him. Job’s testimony was that prior to his afflictions he had heard of God, but that the result of his experiences was he saw God. This is a significant distinction because it indicates he recognized growth in his experience of God. Because of what we know about how God reveals Himself this brings us to Christ. John tells us, ‘No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.’ Job could not see God without beholding Christ, the only begotten Son. Christ is all there is to see of God. If we say we have seen God we must, of necessity, have seen Christ. We dare not sell the ancients short regarding their evangelical knowledge. He has such knowledge. Earlier on in the book he said, ‘For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!’ Therefore we conclude that Job’s increased knowledge of God involved Christ. We value this because we may endure many experiences which are difficult in every way. The end purpose of those experiences is to give us a greater knowledge of God by how He reveals Himself to us through Christ. 

God of Grace and Truth, 
we rejoice that You reveal Yourself to us. 
We praise You that Christ 
is all there is to see of You. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning

In Dust And Ashes

In Dust And Ashes

By |

I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. 

Job 42:5-6 

A clear sight of Christ will give us a better understanding of ourselves. From the 38th chapter of Job through the end of Chapter 41, God speaks to Job directly, ‘out of the whirlwind.’ This is, in many respects analogous to Moses’ encounter of Christ at the burning bush. There Christ spoke from the bush. Here He speaks from the whirlwind. It is as much a Christophany as Moses, Joshua, and Isaiah experienced. Isaiah’s response to his sight of Christ is much to the same as Job’s. He says, ‘Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.’ When we have received a clear sight of Christ, we come to a much better understanding of ourselves. This is an intensely humbling experience. Seeing Christ leads us to abandon our self-righteousness. It brings us to abase ourselves and to magnify Christ. This has been the experience of everyone who has come face to face with Christ in whatever form He has chosen to reveal Himself. As we gain a clear sight of Christ it will have such an effect upon us as well. More of Christ makes for less of us. There is value in our afflictions as Christ uses them to show us more of God.  

Great God of Wonders, 
we rejoice that You reveal Yourself to us. 
We praise You that as You do, 
we see ourselves, and more importantly, we see Christ. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning

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