But if you pray to God and seek the favor of
the Almighty, and if you are pure and live with integrity, He will surely rise
up and restore your happy home. And though you started with little, you will
end with much. Just ask the previous generation. Pay attention to the
experience of our ancestors. For we were born but yesterday and know nothing.
Our days on earth are as fleeting as a shadow. But those who came before us
will teach you. They will teach you the wisdom of old. Job 8:5-10
When someone else is suffering it is easy
to give advice, just like Job’s friends did. Here in this passage his friend
Bildad assumes that Job must have sinned…not lived a pure life with integrity.
But sin wasn’t the source of Job’s suffering. He was a righteous man. Bildad is
telling him to pay attention to his ancestors…that they can teach him some
wisdom. That in itself may be good advice for any of us, although like us, our
ancestors are humans and may not have all the right answers either. Only God
has the pure wisdom. We need to seek that from Him—perhaps not from well-meaning
friends or family.
Prayer
~ Heavenly Father—give us the grace to trust You like Job did because You did
restore his happy home and family.
Friday’s
Feast at the King’s Table
I recently read a recipe for toast with
goat cheese and candied nuts. Since I’ve been limiting my sugars and starches in
an effort to maintain my recent weight loss, I tried some goat cheese on WASA
rye crackers with chopped walnuts. It was good. No sugar is necessary. Simple
enough—no real recipe is necessary, just spread the goat cheese on the cracker
and top with chopped nuts. Any chopped nuts would probably be good. Most nuts
also provide a MUFA – monounsaturated fatty acid which are good fats that are
heart healthy and fight disease. We should include a MUFA with every meal. They
aren’t just nuts. Explore the variety of MUFAs like olives, olive oil, avocado,
pesto sauce, soybeans, peanut butter, tahini, and semisweet chocolate chips.
Nuts can vary in calorie count and walnuts have even less calories than peanuts
or pecans, if you care about calories. Enjoy some goat cheese and nuts on toast
or crackers as a snack or along with a hot bowl of soup on one of these cold
days soon.
© 2016 by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.
All scripture quoted from the New Living Translation (NLT)
unless otherwise noted.
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