1. You hurt. What does your hurt look like? Think of the range of emotions you feel when you are wounded: bewilderment, sadness, disconnection, anger, confusion, worry, rage, frustration, horror, embarrassment. Those are just a handful of the words that could describe your real-life huts.
2. You want. When you hurt, you want a solution. You want things that will make you feel better. Sometimes you might think that eating will make you feel better, shopping will replace the hurt, focusing on the children or other things will make you forget your troubles, drinking will dull the pain. You spin lists of things that you believe would satisfy your wants. Or you reduce the conflict to that one, solitary thing that you believe you need to feel satisfied: if only the other person would change so that you could feel better.
3. Misplaced expectations. When you expect people, places, and things to fulfill your wants, you will be disappointed. And anytime you put your expectations for help in the wrong place, the result is fear.
4. You react. When you feel your wants won't be fulfilled, you experience fear: If you are like most people, you—consciously and unconsciously—fall into well-worn patterns of reacting when someone pushes your fear button. You'll do anything to soothe your hurt. You'll do anything to avoid the awful feeling of want. You'll do or say anything to calm your fear. You may fear losing control, so you try to seize control. You desperately want your way—to be sovereign, to overcome your feelings of helplessness.
5. Your Feelings.
Acceptance
Rejection
Grace
Judgment
Connection
Disconnection
Companionship
Loneliness
Success
Failure
Self-Determination
Powerlessness
Understanding
Being misunderstood
Love
Being scorned
Validation
Being invalidated
Competence
Feeling defective
Respect
Inferiority
Worth
Worthlessness
Honor
Feeling devalued
Dignity
Humiliation
Commitment
Abandonment
Significance
Feeling unimportant
Attention
Feeling ignored
Support
Neglect
Approval
Condemnation
Wanted
Feeling unwanted
Safety
Danger
Affection
Feeling disliked
Trust
Mistrust
Hope
Despair
Joy
Unhappiness
6. Bottom line. This means that it's not merely your core fear that disrupts and injures your relationships. It's how you choose to react when someone pushes your fear button. Most of us use unhealthy, faulty reactions to deal with our fear, and as a result we sabotage our relationships.
Only you can except or reject the thoughts that go through your mind and your reactions.
Renewing your mind
The entire human brain is called the cerebrum or the telencephalon which is the name for a large region within the brain. Scientists say the right hemisphere of the brain appears to control emotional expressions, visual imagination and nonverbal processing, while the left side controls verbal, analytical, sequential thinking and logical processing. Within the hemispheres there are four general parts including the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, and occipital lobe. Each lobe has different features and functions and they are all very important. The frontal lobe is located in the front of the brain next to the parietal lobe. People have said that the frontal lobe plays a part in impulse control, judgment, language production, working memory, motor function, problem solving, sexual behavior, socialization and spontaneity. It also helps in planning, coordinating, controlling and executing behavior. Those are some functions that make the frontal lobe a very important part of the brain. Then there's the parietal lobe which is the part of the brain that is behind the frontal lobe and above temporal lobe. It is capable in putting together sensory information from different parts of the body including vision, hearing, memory, and motor and in the manipulation of objects. Much less is known about this lobe compared to the other three. After, it is the temporal lobe. The Temporal lobe is the one that is under the frontal lobe and the parietal lobe. It is the lobe that involves in auditory processing and is home to the primary auditory cortex which is the responsible for processing of sound information. It is also involved in speech and vision. The temporal lobe includes the hippocampus and is therefore it involves in memory formation as well, making the temporal lobe a very important part of the brain. The last lobe is the occipital lobe. This lobe allows humans to see and it can be found behind the temporal lobe and the parietal lobe. It is the smallest lobe out of the four but it is still very important.Your brain is a thinking organ that learns and grows by interacting with the world through perception and action. Mental stimulation improves brain function and actually protects against cognitive decline, as does physical exercise. The human brain is able to continually adapt and rewire itself. It is the tendency of the brain to shape itself according to experience. The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds. The brain has three main parts: the cerebrum, the cerebellum, and the brain stem (medulla).
Controlling toxic thoughts and emotions; what we think, what gets stuck in our brain jams so much of our body, dams the literal release of the healing potential and possibilities and we release toxins that poison us in so many ways, the negative aspects.
What the memories look like in your brain is pretty much like trees. In building a memory, your brain literally grows branches to hold the words spoken. So it is a physical positioning or place where the information is stored and that is an electro chemical reaction. You have electricity, you have chemicals, and you have a building process occurring. Now those chemicals that help to build the memory are called "the biochemicals of the body," these various different ones but for the sake of understanding it and making it simple we call them all "the biochemicals of the body." You cannot build a memory without the chemicals. Those chemicals are often referred to or now referred to in the current neuro science research as being "molecules of emotion." The very things that we build our memories with actually are carriers of emotion, and they move through your entire body, in your bloodstream. Your whole body contains memories of what's going on in your head, what's happening is that as you are building a memory you're having this electrical chemical reaction. Now there are two types of emotion, you get your fear-based emotions and you get faith-based emotions -- only two types. Out of the fear-based emotions come all of the anger, hate, bitterness, fear, unforgiveness, anxiety, worry. And out of the faith-based emotion comes love, joy, peace, patience, happiness and they are completely distinct in the signs, these different chemicals. , there is a very scientific link between how we think and the chemicals that our body produces. What happens is that they found that the fear-based chemicals, those things are toxic. Our body is made up of all of these chemical feedback loops, all these loops that get us going, all these electrical chemical feedback loops, a mass of them. And as these fear-based chemicals are released, those kind of clog up and block up the natural flow of the good chemicals. So that they kind of distorts the whole pattern and our bodies get reduced to simple feedback loops that actually disrupt the thinking pattern in the mind. It starts with a thought. It comes from what you're thinking in your mind, and if you think of what you're thinking in your mind, you've got all of these memories from birth to the age that you are at now, everything that you've been exposed to, even in the womb is stored in these memory trees of the mind that look like trees. What happens there is that these memory trees build and they live forever, they're controlling. You can actually build a memory that becomes a stronghold and it can dominate your thought life and every time you think of it, it releases certain chemicals in your body that will then go to the weak area, creating a hole, spreading over the positive areas. You build memories related to knowledge to incidents, and if they are negative-based or fear-based memories they're going to have fear-based chemicals flowing. Those chemicals flow through your entire body. They carry that message, if you were hurt when you were a child, your body built up a memory of the pain of that time.
What happens is that as the chemicals are released according to the fear or faith-based emotion that you're feeling, fear is a spiritual force, it is the opposite of faith, which is a spiritual force. Out of that spiritual force of fear will come all of the reactions, which you would have experienced maybe anxiety or worry or depression or whatever, or any of those things. Each of those in itself has its own bunch of chemicals that are released. So eventually your body is bathed in these chemicals that are being traveled, and your body goes into stress. So as you have fear, your body shifts into stress. Stress releases chemicals. These three levels of stress -- the first level is a good level, it's the one that alerts you, sharpens you, and focuses you. But then the second level is where the problems start. The third level is where we've got real serious problems. Now what can happen is that as those chemicals flow, those stress chemicals flow; they flow first to your heart. The life is in the blood. In your heart you have a little mini brain of 40,000 neurons, nerve cells and that little heart brain is a checking station. It checks for accuracy, for truth, for congruence, it is a small quiet voice, it is a gentleman, and it is the conscience. So literally, on a physical level it is described as your checking station, scientifically, and on a spiritual level, it would be where the Holy Spirit would speak to you because it is where your conscience is.
Now all the things from your mind as you formulate thoughts and whatever, it would pass through your conscience. And if we haven't got control of our thought life the conscience will alert you that something is wrong but you may not have a coping strategy in place to actually deal with that emotion. Those chemicals will flow to your heart and if possible, the heart will be choked first because the life is in the blood. Then the chemicals all flow through to the immune system, which is your defense system. So think of it now, your life has been choked and if you have a genetic weakness in your heart, one of those heart problems can start to develop. If however, you don't have a genetic weakness there, you will experience heart palpitations or fluttering of the heart or whatever, then it will shift over to the immune system and the immune system covers a huge amount of -- as things go wrong in the immune system. What will happen there is the immune system or defense system will be attacked. If there is a weakness somewhere there, you will start getting symptoms, physical symptoms.
When the stress chemicals flow, it is a bit like battery acid because if you can imagine that that's your nerve selling your brain and you have about a 100 trillion of them in your brain. What happens is they're covered with like a little fatty sheathe called the myelin sheath and as those stress chemicals flow, they flow through your brain and they actually start physically eating into that myelin sheath. That then will affect the impulse's ability to flow and the chemicals or the peptides to actually flow and carry the information, which will cause depression, fatigue, anxiety, lack of clarity of thought, all kinds of any -- depending on how bad, where it is. Sometimes it forms, the chemicals can almost coagulate and form like a chewing gum blob and the impulse can literally get stuck so you lose attention, you lose focus, you lose concentration. Your fear, the fear chemicals block your ability to think, block your creativity, block your joy, block your hope. Now joy and hope, laughter, those things immediately start releasing chemicals that help to rebuild again. You can go for years, we can stay in that stage for 20, 40, 60 years because one will go in and out, in and out but eventually, the damage becomes quite severe and can become quite permanent.
The emotional memories causes’ psychosomatic illness and damage to the brain for what you are thinking can have a negative effect or can reverse to the positive. What's happening, when you have things stored inside like anger and unforgiveness, the person you're angry with, you're the one that's suffering. You may hold it against them but it is putting toxins in your body. You're actually the one who suffers more. One needs to release that and forgive the person because as you are holding unforgiveness and bitterness which is from the fear line, what happens is you are picking up the wrong chemicals.
If you don’t release the negative emotions what will happen is those little memories, the painful chemicals, the toxic chemicals kind of form little thorns on the memory so it becomes painful. Think of it like a weed that is growing through a garden, and through a field, a really strong wild weed that is weeding out all of the good stuff, eventually, it chokes the good memories and it will dominate. And every time you go and walk through there you hurt yourself, there is pain being released. You can be absent from the situation but experience the same feeling of pain because those molecules then literally pop out of the little thorn, flow through your body, remind your body because you get cellular memory and you actually re-experience the pain. So it is more real than what we actually think. Now forgiveness, you cannot build a new memory over the old memory until you have forgiven because chemically, that new memory can't bond when those chemicals, it is almost like soapy, that's a simple way of explaining it. You can't grow something on to it. You can only add on to the same thing, like unto like. So you can only build the same kind of negative memory on top of it. But if one day you decide to start forgiving and you don't just forgive with your mouth, but you forgive with your heart because your brain has to have your body and your brain has to have congruence, it has to not be oh, I forgive them. You have to really forgive them.
Free will was a gift to us from the Father, once we have accepted Him, our gift to Him is to have His will. And since He wants only good for us, every thought must be decided with “is this good for me”, if not though it away and don’t feed into it.Our environment, teachings, hurts and pains can damage our way of thinking and responding bringing every thought received as negative causing more stress to the mind and body. But since the brain can rewire itself we can choose to override the black stress into positive thoughts by truly taking every thought captive; “I’ll keep this – I’ll disregard that” until we make it a habit to think positive and protect what flows through our brain and body. I find this fascinating for I new how to renew the mind in His Word, but allowed festering situations replay until the body started to react.
What a powerful tool He has given us – now to use it wisely and make our changes!
Dear G-d
Dear G-d,There comes a point in our life when one realizes: Who matters, who never did, who won't anymore... And who always will. We don't need to worry about people from our past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to our future, and we move onward.
Help us to be kinder than necessary because everyone we meet is fighting some kind of battle. We just never know where a person is in their life and what they are going through.May we never judge another person's scars, because we don't know how they got them.
Father, bless this person reading this ~ make them strong and loving.
Help them live their life to the fullest.
Please promote them and cause them to excel above their expectations.
Help them shine in the darkest places where it is impossible to love.
Protect them at all times, lift them up when they need You the most and let them know when they walk with You that they will always be safe.
Let them feel Your loving arms wrap around them.
Blessings to them all!
Political Government
The machinery of political government:
[Job 12:23] He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
[He increased the nations - A number of the tribal names mentioned in Job are first encountered in the table of nations in Gen. 10, which listed the seventy nations that evidently resulted from the Babel dispersion.
Uz in Gen. 10:23 and in Job 1:1
Sheba in Gen. 10:7 and in Job 6:19
Ophir in Gen. 10:29 and in Job 28:16
Ethiopia, same as Cush, in Gen. 10:6 and in Job 28:19
Seba, same as Sabaeans, in Gen. 10:7 and in Job 1:15
This comparison further emphasizes the antiquity of Job. The Chaldeans in Job 1:17 are first mentioned in connection with Abraham’s boyhood home in Ur of Gen. 11:28, but Ur may originally have been Uruk, or Erech in Gen. 10:10.
Other tribal names in Job may include Tema, son of Ishmael in Gen. 25:15 and Job 6:19, Teman, grandson of Esau in Gen. 36:15 and Job 2:11; Shuah, son of Abraham by Keturah, as listed in Gen. 25:2, and probably ancestor of Bildad, the Shuhite in Job 2:22; and Buz nephew of Abraham in Gen. 22:21, an ancestor of Elihu, as suggested in Job 32:2. All of these long predate Moses.
In addition to the tribes and nations named in the early chapters of Genesis and those known from ancient secular history could not compete successfully and eventually died out. These most likely include ‘cave men’ and others now identified only by fragmentary fossils and crude artifacts and often mistakenly classed as evolving hominids or ‘ape-men.’
And destroyeth them - He lets the nations grow licentious. Pride, fullness of bread, with extensive trade and commerce, produce luxury; and this is ever accompanied with wastefulness of manners. When, then, the cup of this iniquity is full, G-d destroys the nation, by bringing or permitting to come against it a nation less pampered, more necessitous, and inured to toil.
He enlargeth the nations - Often permits a nation to acquire an accession of territory, and afterwards shuts them up within their ancient boundaries, and often contracts even those. All these things seem to occur as natural events, and the consequences of state intrigues, and such like causes. But when Divine inspiration comes to pronounce upon them, they are shown to be the consequence of G-d's acting in His judgment and mercy; for it is by Him that kings reign; it is He who putts down one and raises up another.]
[24] He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
[Job is the oldest book in the Bible and there are so many references to discoveries or problems of modern science plus containing many allusions to the systems and processes of nature. Fifteen or more facts of science are suggested in this book that scientist did not discover until recent centuries. This indicates either the divine inspiration of the book or the remarkably up-to-date scientific knowledge of those ancient nations and tribes.
The heart of the chief - Suddenly deprives the leaders of great counsels, or mighty armies of courage; so that, panic-struck, they flee when none pursuits, or are confounded when about to enter on the accomplishment of important designs.]
[25] They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
[Job and his contemporaries evidently were aware of some of these degenerate peoples, still barely surviving. Those he noted as wanderers in the wilderness or as those groping the dark without light were likely those living in deserts, jungles, or caves. See 30:3-8.
They grope in the dark - apply also to the state of wicked nations under judicial blindness, they are brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
The entire passage has a reference to the machinery of a regular and political government; and that its general drift is to imprint on the mind of the hearer the important doctrine that the whole of the constituent principles of such a government, its officers and institutions. Its monarchs and princes; its privy-counselors, judges, and ministers of state, its chieftains, public orators, and assembly of elders; its nobles, or men of hereditary rank; and its stout robust peasantry, as we should express it in the present day. The deep designing villains that plot in secret its destruction;-that the nations themselves, and the heads or sovereigns of the nations, are all and equally in the hands of the Almighty: that with him human pomp is poverty; human excellence, turpitude; human judgment, error; human wisdom, folly; human dignity, contempt; human strength, weakness.]
G-d can soon nonplus the deepest politicians and bring the greatest wits to their wits' end, to show that wherein they deal proudly He is above them.
Thus are the revolutions of kingdoms brought about by an overruling providence. Heaven and earth are shaken: but the L-rd remains the King forever and with Him we look for a kingdom that cannot be shaken.
[Job 12:23] He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
[He increased the nations - A number of the tribal names mentioned in Job are first encountered in the table of nations in Gen. 10, which listed the seventy nations that evidently resulted from the Babel dispersion.
Uz in Gen. 10:23 and in Job 1:1
Sheba in Gen. 10:7 and in Job 6:19
Ophir in Gen. 10:29 and in Job 28:16
Ethiopia, same as Cush, in Gen. 10:6 and in Job 28:19
Seba, same as Sabaeans, in Gen. 10:7 and in Job 1:15
This comparison further emphasizes the antiquity of Job. The Chaldeans in Job 1:17 are first mentioned in connection with Abraham’s boyhood home in Ur of Gen. 11:28, but Ur may originally have been Uruk, or Erech in Gen. 10:10.
Other tribal names in Job may include Tema, son of Ishmael in Gen. 25:15 and Job 6:19, Teman, grandson of Esau in Gen. 36:15 and Job 2:11; Shuah, son of Abraham by Keturah, as listed in Gen. 25:2, and probably ancestor of Bildad, the Shuhite in Job 2:22; and Buz nephew of Abraham in Gen. 22:21, an ancestor of Elihu, as suggested in Job 32:2. All of these long predate Moses.
In addition to the tribes and nations named in the early chapters of Genesis and those known from ancient secular history could not compete successfully and eventually died out. These most likely include ‘cave men’ and others now identified only by fragmentary fossils and crude artifacts and often mistakenly classed as evolving hominids or ‘ape-men.’
And destroyeth them - He lets the nations grow licentious. Pride, fullness of bread, with extensive trade and commerce, produce luxury; and this is ever accompanied with wastefulness of manners. When, then, the cup of this iniquity is full, G-d destroys the nation, by bringing or permitting to come against it a nation less pampered, more necessitous, and inured to toil.
He enlargeth the nations - Often permits a nation to acquire an accession of territory, and afterwards shuts them up within their ancient boundaries, and often contracts even those. All these things seem to occur as natural events, and the consequences of state intrigues, and such like causes. But when Divine inspiration comes to pronounce upon them, they are shown to be the consequence of G-d's acting in His judgment and mercy; for it is by Him that kings reign; it is He who putts down one and raises up another.]
[24] He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
[Job is the oldest book in the Bible and there are so many references to discoveries or problems of modern science plus containing many allusions to the systems and processes of nature. Fifteen or more facts of science are suggested in this book that scientist did not discover until recent centuries. This indicates either the divine inspiration of the book or the remarkably up-to-date scientific knowledge of those ancient nations and tribes.
The heart of the chief - Suddenly deprives the leaders of great counsels, or mighty armies of courage; so that, panic-struck, they flee when none pursuits, or are confounded when about to enter on the accomplishment of important designs.]
[25] They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
[Job and his contemporaries evidently were aware of some of these degenerate peoples, still barely surviving. Those he noted as wanderers in the wilderness or as those groping the dark without light were likely those living in deserts, jungles, or caves. See 30:3-8.
They grope in the dark - apply also to the state of wicked nations under judicial blindness, they are brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
The entire passage has a reference to the machinery of a regular and political government; and that its general drift is to imprint on the mind of the hearer the important doctrine that the whole of the constituent principles of such a government, its officers and institutions. Its monarchs and princes; its privy-counselors, judges, and ministers of state, its chieftains, public orators, and assembly of elders; its nobles, or men of hereditary rank; and its stout robust peasantry, as we should express it in the present day. The deep designing villains that plot in secret its destruction;-that the nations themselves, and the heads or sovereigns of the nations, are all and equally in the hands of the Almighty: that with him human pomp is poverty; human excellence, turpitude; human judgment, error; human wisdom, folly; human dignity, contempt; human strength, weakness.]
G-d can soon nonplus the deepest politicians and bring the greatest wits to their wits' end, to show that wherein they deal proudly He is above them.
Thus are the revolutions of kingdoms brought about by an overruling providence. Heaven and earth are shaken: but the L-rd remains the King forever and with Him we look for a kingdom that cannot be shaken.
Allusion to the flood
[Job 12:14] Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
[14-15 Evidence for the disastrous violence of the flood is found not only in the Bible but also in geological features all over the globe. 2 Peter 3:6 says: “the world (cosmos) that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.” This earth-changing, destructive physical cataclysm was well-remembered in traditions all over the world, including the ancestral traditions of Job and his friends.
He breaketh down - He alone can create, and He alone can destroy. Nothing can be annihilated but by the same Power that created it. This is a most remarkable fact. No power, skill, or cunning of man can annihilate the smallest particle of matter. Man, by chemical agency, may change its form; but to reduce it to nothing belongs to G-d alone. In the course of His providence G-d breaks down, so that it cannot be built up again. See proofs of this in the total political destruction of Nineveh, Babylon, Tyre, and other cities, which have broken down never to be rebuilt; as well as the Assyrian, Babylonian, Grecian, and Roman empires, which have been dismembered and almost annihilated, never more to be regenerated.
He shutteth up a man - when the appointed time came, Noah went into the ark and the L-rd shut him in (Gen. 6:16), and it could not be opened until the earth had been overturned by the great waters.
No opening - Without G-d's permission. Yea, He shuts up in the grave, and none can break open those sealed doors. He shuts up in hell, in chains of darkness, and none can pass that great gulf.][15] Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
[The waters - Which are reserved it’s the clouds, that they may not fall upon the earth.
They - The waters upon the earth, springs, and brooks, and rivers. As at the time of the general deluge, to which here is a manifest allusion.
Dry up - refer to the “waters….above the firmament” that were established on the third day of creation, resulting in a ‘greenhouse effect’ that made rain impossible in the primeval word (Gen. 19; 2:6). Let the waters be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear. Thus the earth was drained, and the waters collected into seas, and bound to their particular places. This global water blanket, water vapor, was withheld from the earth until the Father used it to ‘overturn the earth’ in the days of Noah.
He send them out - Here is also an allusion to the flood, for when he broke up the fountains of the great deep, then the earth was overturned.
G-d has the command of the waters, binds them as in a garment (Proverbs 30:4), holds them in the hollow of His hand (Isaiah 40:12); and He can punish the children of men either by the defect or by the excess of them. As men break the laws of virtue by extremes on each hand, both defects and excesses, while virtue is in the mean, so
G-d corrects them by extremes, and denies them the mercy which is in the mean.
1. Great droughts are sometimes great judgments: He withholds the waters, and they dry up; if the heaven be as brass, the earth is as iron; if the rain be denied, fountains dry up and their streams are wanted, fields are parched and their fruits are wanted, Amos 4:7.
2. Great wet is sometimes a great judgment. He raises the waters, and overturns the earth, the productions of it, and the buildings upon it. A sweeping rain is said to leave no food, Proverbs 28:3 See how many ways G- has of contending with a sinful people and taking from them abused, forfeited, mercies; and how utterly unable we are to contend with Hi. If we might invert the order, would fitly refer to Noah's flood, that ever memorable instance of the divine power. G-d then, in wrath, sent the waters out, and they overturned the earth; but in mercy He withheld them, shut the windows of heaven and the fountains of the great deep, and then, in a little time, they dried up.]
Don’t break the laws of virtue and you will not be found drowning.
[14-15 Evidence for the disastrous violence of the flood is found not only in the Bible but also in geological features all over the globe. 2 Peter 3:6 says: “the world (cosmos) that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.” This earth-changing, destructive physical cataclysm was well-remembered in traditions all over the world, including the ancestral traditions of Job and his friends.
He breaketh down - He alone can create, and He alone can destroy. Nothing can be annihilated but by the same Power that created it. This is a most remarkable fact. No power, skill, or cunning of man can annihilate the smallest particle of matter. Man, by chemical agency, may change its form; but to reduce it to nothing belongs to G-d alone. In the course of His providence G-d breaks down, so that it cannot be built up again. See proofs of this in the total political destruction of Nineveh, Babylon, Tyre, and other cities, which have broken down never to be rebuilt; as well as the Assyrian, Babylonian, Grecian, and Roman empires, which have been dismembered and almost annihilated, never more to be regenerated.
He shutteth up a man - when the appointed time came, Noah went into the ark and the L-rd shut him in (Gen. 6:16), and it could not be opened until the earth had been overturned by the great waters.
No opening - Without G-d's permission. Yea, He shuts up in the grave, and none can break open those sealed doors. He shuts up in hell, in chains of darkness, and none can pass that great gulf.][15] Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
[The waters - Which are reserved it’s the clouds, that they may not fall upon the earth.
They - The waters upon the earth, springs, and brooks, and rivers. As at the time of the general deluge, to which here is a manifest allusion.
Dry up - refer to the “waters….above the firmament” that were established on the third day of creation, resulting in a ‘greenhouse effect’ that made rain impossible in the primeval word (Gen. 19; 2:6). Let the waters be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear. Thus the earth was drained, and the waters collected into seas, and bound to their particular places. This global water blanket, water vapor, was withheld from the earth until the Father used it to ‘overturn the earth’ in the days of Noah.
He send them out - Here is also an allusion to the flood, for when he broke up the fountains of the great deep, then the earth was overturned.
G-d has the command of the waters, binds them as in a garment (Proverbs 30:4), holds them in the hollow of His hand (Isaiah 40:12); and He can punish the children of men either by the defect or by the excess of them. As men break the laws of virtue by extremes on each hand, both defects and excesses, while virtue is in the mean, so
G-d corrects them by extremes, and denies them the mercy which is in the mean.
1. Great droughts are sometimes great judgments: He withholds the waters, and they dry up; if the heaven be as brass, the earth is as iron; if the rain be denied, fountains dry up and their streams are wanted, fields are parched and their fruits are wanted, Amos 4:7.
2. Great wet is sometimes a great judgment. He raises the waters, and overturns the earth, the productions of it, and the buildings upon it. A sweeping rain is said to leave no food, Proverbs 28:3 See how many ways G- has of contending with a sinful people and taking from them abused, forfeited, mercies; and how utterly unable we are to contend with Hi. If we might invert the order, would fitly refer to Noah's flood, that ever memorable instance of the divine power. G-d then, in wrath, sent the waters out, and they overturned the earth; but in mercy He withheld them, shut the windows of heaven and the fountains of the great deep, and then, in a little time, they dried up.]
Don’t break the laws of virtue and you will not be found drowning.
Zoology Lesson
[Job 12:7] But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Gen. 1:20-25 the creation of the animals, G-d created all the animals and that we could learn from them the reality of a creator 7-10. Every thing in nature, the beasts of the field, the fowls of the heaven, every inhabitant of earth and sea, and every thing that befalls them, is the work of His hands; and every thing feels and acknowledges Him to be the universal Creator and Controller. It is the common doctrine of all nature.
[8] Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.Many a good lesson we may learn from them, but what are they here to teach us?
1. Even among the brute creatures the greater devour the less and the stronger prey upon the weaker, and men are as the fishes of the sea, Habakkuk 1:14. If sin had not entered, we may suppose there would have been no such disorder among the creatures, but the wolf and the lamb would have lain down together.
2. These creatures are serviceable to wicked men, and so they declare their prosperity. Ask the herds and the flocks to whom they belong, and they will tell you that such a robber, such an oppressor, is their owner: the fishes and fowls will tell you that they are served up to the tables, and feed the luxury, of proud sinners. The earth brings forth her fruits to them (Job 9:24), and the whole creation groans under the burden of their tyranny, Romans 8:20, 22.
All the creatures which wicked men abuse, by making them the food and fuel of their lusts, will witness against them another day, James 5:3, 4.
We may from them learn the wisdom, power, and goodness of G-d, and that sovereign dominion of his into which plain and self-evident truth all these difficult dispensations must be resolved.
3. From G-d's sovereign dominion over the inferior creatures we should learn to acquiesce in all his disposals of the affairs of the children of men, though contrary to our measures.
[9] Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the L-RD hath wrought this?
G-d’s lengthy zoology lesson and examination is a sharp rebuke to those who lack knowledge and lack any feeling of responsibility for the remarkable kingdom of animals that He created and for whom He made such amazing provisions in nature.
The name Jehovah is used here and it is the only time that we meet with it in all the discourses between Job and his friends; for Go- was, in that age, more known by the name of Shaddai--the Almighty.
[10] In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Every living thing has a soul, man and animals. Gen. 1:21 and Gen. 2:7. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing. All the creatures and mankind particularly, derive their being from Him, owe their being to Him, depend upon Him for the support of it, lie at His mercy, are under His direction and dominion and entirely at His disposal, and at His summons must resign their lives. All souls are His; and may He not do what He will with His own?
If you observes the beasts, and their properties and actions, and events, from them you may learn this lesson. This also tells us to respect and love animals for they too have a soul and placed here for our learning.
Gen. 1:20-25 the creation of the animals, G-d created all the animals and that we could learn from them the reality of a creator 7-10. Every thing in nature, the beasts of the field, the fowls of the heaven, every inhabitant of earth and sea, and every thing that befalls them, is the work of His hands; and every thing feels and acknowledges Him to be the universal Creator and Controller. It is the common doctrine of all nature.
[8] Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.Many a good lesson we may learn from them, but what are they here to teach us?
1. Even among the brute creatures the greater devour the less and the stronger prey upon the weaker, and men are as the fishes of the sea, Habakkuk 1:14. If sin had not entered, we may suppose there would have been no such disorder among the creatures, but the wolf and the lamb would have lain down together.
2. These creatures are serviceable to wicked men, and so they declare their prosperity. Ask the herds and the flocks to whom they belong, and they will tell you that such a robber, such an oppressor, is their owner: the fishes and fowls will tell you that they are served up to the tables, and feed the luxury, of proud sinners. The earth brings forth her fruits to them (Job 9:24), and the whole creation groans under the burden of their tyranny, Romans 8:20, 22.
All the creatures which wicked men abuse, by making them the food and fuel of their lusts, will witness against them another day, James 5:3, 4.
We may from them learn the wisdom, power, and goodness of G-d, and that sovereign dominion of his into which plain and self-evident truth all these difficult dispensations must be resolved.
3. From G-d's sovereign dominion over the inferior creatures we should learn to acquiesce in all his disposals of the affairs of the children of men, though contrary to our measures.
[9] Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the L-RD hath wrought this?
G-d’s lengthy zoology lesson and examination is a sharp rebuke to those who lack knowledge and lack any feeling of responsibility for the remarkable kingdom of animals that He created and for whom He made such amazing provisions in nature.
The name Jehovah is used here and it is the only time that we meet with it in all the discourses between Job and his friends; for Go- was, in that age, more known by the name of Shaddai--the Almighty.
[10] In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Every living thing has a soul, man and animals. Gen. 1:21 and Gen. 2:7. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing. All the creatures and mankind particularly, derive their being from Him, owe their being to Him, depend upon Him for the support of it, lie at His mercy, are under His direction and dominion and entirely at His disposal, and at His summons must resign their lives. All souls are His; and may He not do what He will with His own?
If you observes the beasts, and their properties and actions, and events, from them you may learn this lesson. This also tells us to respect and love animals for they too have a soul and placed here for our learning.
I am a human being
I will fail, but I am not a failure.
There is good and bad in the world.
I will do bad things, but I am not a bad person.
I will also do good things, but it does not always appear good to others.
There are right and wrong answers.
I will give a wrong answer, but I am not always wrong.
I will give a right answer, but it may not be right for others.
I am a collection of ideas, impressions and experiences. I act upon that collection that was installed into my childhood.
We may act differently – that is okay, for we were created as individuals.
My failure may be your success.
My good deed may be your wrong deed.
My bad deed may be your good deed.
My right answer may be your wrong answer.
My wrong answerer may be your right answer.
It is okay if we are different; different is not always a bad thing. For the Father has us all on different callings and paths we must travel.
I am responsible for one human being to stay on the salvation road and that is me.
I know only one collection of thoughts and that is my own, but that can be developed with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Who I am depends on me, and that is no one else’s fault. For once I am of age it is up to me to change what needs to be changed to make life more pleasant for me and those around me.
There is good and bad in the world.
I will do bad things, but I am not a bad person.
I will also do good things, but it does not always appear good to others.
There are right and wrong answers.
I will give a wrong answer, but I am not always wrong.
I will give a right answer, but it may not be right for others.
I am a collection of ideas, impressions and experiences. I act upon that collection that was installed into my childhood.
We may act differently – that is okay, for we were created as individuals.
My failure may be your success.
My good deed may be your wrong deed.
My bad deed may be your good deed.
My right answer may be your wrong answer.
My wrong answerer may be your right answer.
It is okay if we are different; different is not always a bad thing. For the Father has us all on different callings and paths we must travel.
I am responsible for one human being to stay on the salvation road and that is me.
I know only one collection of thoughts and that is my own, but that can be developed with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Who I am depends on me, and that is no one else’s fault. For once I am of age it is up to me to change what needs to be changed to make life more pleasant for me and those around me.
Wonderfully Made
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
[Job 10:8] Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about;
How Job eyes G-d as his Creator and preserver, and describes his dependence upon Him as the author and upholder of his being. That G-d made us, He, and not our parents, who were only the instruments of His power and providence in our production. He made us, and not we ourselves. His hands have made and fashioned these bodies of ours and every part of them. The soul also, which animates the body, is His gift.
[9] …thou hast made me as the clay…
The clay proves that the reference here is, not so much to the perishable nature of the materials, as to their wonderful fashioning by the Divine Potter. As a potter makes a vessel of clay; so this may note both the frailty of man's nature, which of itself decays and perishes, the excellency of the Divine artifice commended from the meanness of the materials.
We are earthen vessels, mean in our original, and soon broken in pieces, made as the clay. Let not therefore the thing formed say unto him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? We must not be proud of our bodies, because the matter is from the earth, yet not dishonor our bodies, because the mould and shape are from the Divine Wisdom.
[10] Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Images here to generation is the true notion, the formation of human bodies in the womb is described by an elegant similitude, Thou hast poured me out like milk, which is coagulated into cheese).
[11] Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
Though we come into the world naked, yet the body is itself both clothed and armed. The skin and flesh are its clothing; the bones and sinews are its armor, not offensive, but defensive. The vital parts, the heart and lungs, are thus clothed, not to be seen--thus fenced, not to be hurt. The admirable structure of human bodies is an illustrious instance of the wisdom, power, and goodness of the Creator.
[12] Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
The soul is the life, the soul is the man, and this is the gift of G-d: Thou hast granted me life, breathed into me the breath of life, without which the body would be but a worthless carcass. G-d is the Father of spirits: He made us living souls, and endued us with the power of reason. He gave us life and favour, and life is a favour - a great favour, more than meat, more than raiment - a distinguishing favour, a favour that puts us into a capacity of receiving other favors, such as nourishment by the breast, education, knowledge, and instruction.
That G-d maintains us. Having lighted the lamp of life, He does not leave it to burn upon its own stock, but continually supplies it with fresh oil.
Thy visitation has preserved my spirit, kept me alive, protected me from the adversaries of life, the death we are in the midst of and the dangers we are continually exposed to, and blessed me with all the necessary supports of life and the daily supplies it needs and craves. He has given me has given me the air I breathe.
G-d made me and maintains me, and therefore I will serve Him and submit to Him.
[13] And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
G-d hast had many gracious purposes concerning us which He hast not made known; but His visitations and mercy are sufficient proofs of kindness towards us!
[Job 10:8] Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about;
How Job eyes G-d as his Creator and preserver, and describes his dependence upon Him as the author and upholder of his being. That G-d made us, He, and not our parents, who were only the instruments of His power and providence in our production. He made us, and not we ourselves. His hands have made and fashioned these bodies of ours and every part of them. The soul also, which animates the body, is His gift.
[9] …thou hast made me as the clay…
The clay proves that the reference here is, not so much to the perishable nature of the materials, as to their wonderful fashioning by the Divine Potter. As a potter makes a vessel of clay; so this may note both the frailty of man's nature, which of itself decays and perishes, the excellency of the Divine artifice commended from the meanness of the materials.
We are earthen vessels, mean in our original, and soon broken in pieces, made as the clay. Let not therefore the thing formed say unto him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? We must not be proud of our bodies, because the matter is from the earth, yet not dishonor our bodies, because the mould and shape are from the Divine Wisdom.
[10] Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Images here to generation is the true notion, the formation of human bodies in the womb is described by an elegant similitude, Thou hast poured me out like milk, which is coagulated into cheese).
[11] Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
Though we come into the world naked, yet the body is itself both clothed and armed. The skin and flesh are its clothing; the bones and sinews are its armor, not offensive, but defensive. The vital parts, the heart and lungs, are thus clothed, not to be seen--thus fenced, not to be hurt. The admirable structure of human bodies is an illustrious instance of the wisdom, power, and goodness of the Creator.
[12] Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
The soul is the life, the soul is the man, and this is the gift of G-d: Thou hast granted me life, breathed into me the breath of life, without which the body would be but a worthless carcass. G-d is the Father of spirits: He made us living souls, and endued us with the power of reason. He gave us life and favour, and life is a favour - a great favour, more than meat, more than raiment - a distinguishing favour, a favour that puts us into a capacity of receiving other favors, such as nourishment by the breast, education, knowledge, and instruction.
That G-d maintains us. Having lighted the lamp of life, He does not leave it to burn upon its own stock, but continually supplies it with fresh oil.
Thy visitation has preserved my spirit, kept me alive, protected me from the adversaries of life, the death we are in the midst of and the dangers we are continually exposed to, and blessed me with all the necessary supports of life and the daily supplies it needs and craves. He has given me has given me the air I breathe.
G-d made me and maintains me, and therefore I will serve Him and submit to Him.
[13] And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
G-d hast had many gracious purposes concerning us which He hast not made known; but His visitations and mercy are sufficient proofs of kindness towards us!
The scars of life
The Scripture teaches that G-d loves you. You are a child of G-d. He wants to protect you and provide for you in every way.
But sometimes we foolishly wade into dangerous situations, not knowing what lies ahead. The swimming hole of life is filled with peril - and we for get that the enemy is waiting to attack. That's when the tug-of-war begins - and if you have the scars of His love on your arms, be very, very grateful. He did not and will not ever let you go.
You just never know where a person is in his/her life and what they are going through.
Never judge another person's scars, because you don't know how they got them.
But sometimes we foolishly wade into dangerous situations, not knowing what lies ahead. The swimming hole of life is filled with peril - and we for get that the enemy is waiting to attack. That's when the tug-of-war begins - and if you have the scars of His love on your arms, be very, very grateful. He did not and will not ever let you go.
You just never know where a person is in his/her life and what they are going through.
Never judge another person's scars, because you don't know how they got them.
Eyes of the Flesh
[Job 10:4] Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
Eyes of the flesh cannot see at any great distance, and only in one place at a time, and only one object after another and what they are, and only outward objects and in these they are sometimes deceived, and at length fail.
Eyes of flesh cannot see in the dark: but darkness hides not from G-d.
Eyes of flesh are but in one place at a time, and can see but a little way. But the eyes of the L-rd are in every place, and run to and fro thro' the whole earth.
Eyes of flesh will shortly be darkened by age, and shut up by death. But the eyes of G-d are forever the same, nor does His sight ever decay.
G-d has eyes, but not fleshly ones; He has eyes of love, grace, and mercy, which are always upon His people for good, and are never withdrawn from them. He has eyes of displeasure and wrath on sinful men, to destroy them; these are not made of flesh, or like the eyes of flesh and blood, or of men.
But the eyes of G-d see all things, at the greatest distance; He looks down from heaven, and beholds all the children of men on earth, and all their actions; His eyes are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. He can see in the dark as well as in the light, the darkness and the light are both alike to Him; He beholds not only outward actions and visible objects, but also the hearts of men, and all that is in them. Nor is He ever deceived, nor will His sight ever fail.
Seest thou as man seeth? look with hatred and envy, as one man does upon another: with the same uncharitable eye, as, for instance, Job's friends? Man sees the outside only, and judges by appearances: but Thou see mine heart.
We need to see through G-d's eyes and look into others hearts. Never judging a book by its cover.
Eyes of the flesh cannot see at any great distance, and only in one place at a time, and only one object after another and what they are, and only outward objects and in these they are sometimes deceived, and at length fail.
Eyes of flesh cannot see in the dark: but darkness hides not from G-d.
Eyes of flesh are but in one place at a time, and can see but a little way. But the eyes of the L-rd are in every place, and run to and fro thro' the whole earth.
Eyes of flesh will shortly be darkened by age, and shut up by death. But the eyes of G-d are forever the same, nor does His sight ever decay.
G-d has eyes, but not fleshly ones; He has eyes of love, grace, and mercy, which are always upon His people for good, and are never withdrawn from them. He has eyes of displeasure and wrath on sinful men, to destroy them; these are not made of flesh, or like the eyes of flesh and blood, or of men.
But the eyes of G-d see all things, at the greatest distance; He looks down from heaven, and beholds all the children of men on earth, and all their actions; His eyes are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. He can see in the dark as well as in the light, the darkness and the light are both alike to Him; He beholds not only outward actions and visible objects, but also the hearts of men, and all that is in them. Nor is He ever deceived, nor will His sight ever fail.
Seest thou as man seeth? look with hatred and envy, as one man does upon another: with the same uncharitable eye, as, for instance, Job's friends? Man sees the outside only, and judges by appearances: but Thou see mine heart.
We need to see through G-d's eyes and look into others hearts. Never judging a book by its cover.
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