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Saturday, September 8, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with laser-focused intensity:

“Why is light given to those in misery…?”
(Job 3:20)

I get it, Jesus.

Job’s referring to the light of the sun.
He’s in such agony that he thinks he’d be better off dead.

But as he learned after You restored him

he was dead wrong.

Just because I’m miserable, suffering, struggling

doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be here.

You use the pain of my life to teach me and toughen me…

and then You make it pay off!

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning (812) 473-7729…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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Job 42:12-17; Psalms 119:107; Isaiah 38:17; Isaiah 53:11; Hebrews 2:9-10; Hebrews 2:18; Hebrews 5:8; 1 Peter 2:21

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Saturday, August 5, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo in forgiving awareness:

“I would be asleep and at rest…”
(Job 3:13)

Job thinks that’s what being dead is like, Jesus.

He also thinks it’s better than being alive right now.

Plagued by the loss of his family, health, reputation, fortune

unconsciousness seems preferable.

Of course, that’s not what death is.

Even Job knew that!

But when we’re in pain

most of us tend to say things we don’t mean.

Help me remember that

next time someone goes off on me.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning 212-LAZAROO…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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Job 3:1-10; Job 19:27; Job 40:4-5; Luke 23:34; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Hebrews 12:1; James 3:5-9