How Jobs and Daily Devotions Change Your Life
STAY AT YOUR POST
Eric was stunned by the certified letter he had received. He had been fired! His record with the company was good, and the reasons given for his dismissal were without substance.
As he related his story to me, Eric explained, “I said to myself, ‘Don’t panic. Think this through. How would God have me respond?’”
After praying and consulting a Christian lawyer, Eric felt that God was leading him to apply the truth of today’s text to his situation. So he stayed at his post and continued to see clients and place orders. To meet his financial needs, he drew on his personal reserves. Company officials were unprepared to deal with someone who kept at his job after being dropped from the payroll. Eight months later, the president offered Eric a new contract with the best terms ever.
Not everyone can or should do what Eric did. But we can learn from his example. We don’t need to be “afraid of sudden terror” (Proverbs 3:25). We don’t need to panic.
When a trial turns our life upside down, we can “stay at our post” by seeking God’s wisdom through prayer, Scripture, and mature Christian counsel. We can resist despair, remain confident that God is at work, and continue doing what is right and good. God will do the rest. – Dennis De Haan
When through life’s darkened maze I go
And troubles overwhelm my soul,
Oh, grant me, Lord, Your grace to know
That You are surely in control. – D. De Haan
A crisis cannot break the one
who relies on God’s strength.
Today’s Bible Reading – Ecclesiastes 8:1-9
1 Who is like a wise man? there is a time and judgement,
And who knows the though the misery of man
interpretation of a thing? A increases greatly.
man’s wisdom makes his 7 For he does not know
face shine, and the sternness what will happen; so who
of his face is changed. can tell him when it will
2 I say, “Keep the king’s occur?
commandment for the sake 8 No one has power over
of your oath to God. the spirit to retain the spirit,
3 Do not be hasty to go and no one has power in the
from his presence. Do not day of death. There is no
take your stand for an evil release from that war, and
thing, for he does whatever wickedness will not deliver
pleases him.” those who are given to it.
4 Where the word of a king 9 All this I have seen, and
is, there is power; and who applied my heart to every
may say to him, “What are work that is done under the
you doing?” sun: There is a time in
5 He who keeps his which one man rules over
command will experience another to his own hurt.
nothing harmful; and a wise
man’s heart discerns both
time and judgement,
6 Because for every matter
>INSIGHT<
The author of Ecclesiastes, Solomon, had long ago learned that true
wisdom comes only from the Lord (1 Kings 3:3-14). Unfortunately,
Solomon abandoned the wisdom of God for the supposed wisdom of
false gods – and brought disaster to himself and his kingdom. As he
wrote Ecclesiastes, he looked back on his life and acknowledge the
tragic mistakes he had made.
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