How Christians Can Be Sure of Their True Spiritual Condition Introduction It is possible to be sincerely wrong about one’s standing with God. Jesus warned that many will one day say, “Lord, Lord,” only to hear, “I never knew you.” (Matthew 7:22–23)Few questions are more sobering than this: How can I be sure I’m not…
(Job 40:6–41:34 | Chapter XXVII of Jessie Penn-Lewis’s The Story of Job) “Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?”—Job 41:1 (KJV) God is not finished speaking. In this second speech, He moves from creation’s grandeur to spiritual confrontation. “Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou…
(Job 40:1–5 | Chapter XXVI of Jessie Penn-Lewis’s The Story of Job) “Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.” —Job 40:4 (KJV) The storm has spoken. Job doesn’t argue.He doesn’t explain himself.He doesn’t ask for justice. He simply yields. “Behold, I am vile; what shall…
(Job 38–39 | Chapter XXV of Jessie Penn-Lewis’s The Story of Job) After a long silence, God speaks. But He does not explain.He does not justify.He does not apologize. He questions. “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?” (38:4) God takes Job on a tour of the cosmos—from the sea’s birth…
(Job 32–33 | Chapter XXIII of Jessie Penn-Lewis’s The Story of Job) “Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.”—Job 32:9 (KJV) For 31 chapters, Elihu has been silent. Now he speaks—not as a friend, but as a critic of the friends and of Job. “I am full of matter, the…
(Job 29–31 | Chapter XXII of Jessie Penn-Lewis’s The Story of Job) “I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.”—Job 29:14 (KJV) Job now speaks for the final time before the Lord answers. These chapters are not rebuttal—they are reflection.He looks back at the days of…