The Color of the Night: Reflections on Suffering and the Book of JobAugsburg Books - 112 pages This new release of Gerhard E. Frost's classic The Color of the Night includes 86 short reflections inspired by the biblical Job. Each reflection begins with a quotation from Job and wrestles with the difficult issues that we face during times of crisis, such as trust in God, the meaning of life, and fairness in the world. With newly added questions for reflection and discussion, this thoughtful book is ideal for individual and group study in Lent (or any season) or for personal devotion. |
Contents
I am not inferior to you | 46 |
Your own mouth condemns you | 48 |
Miserable comforters | 49 |
God has hated me | 51 |
Have pity | 52 |
My Redeemer lives | 53 |
Why do the wicked grow mighty? | 55 |
God pays no attention | 56 |
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Curse God and die | 24 |
Let the day perish | 25 |
Why? | 26 |
Why such mystery? | 27 |
Who can keep from speaking? | 28 |
Lost among the many | 29 |
As I have seen | 31 |
Get right with God | 33 |
The arrows of the Almighty | 34 |
From a friend | 35 |
When it is hot | 36 |
My world is crumbling | 37 |
What is man? | 38 |
You spy | 39 |
If you will seek God | 41 |
Consider the fathers | 42 |
No umpire between us | 43 |
I loathe my life | 44 |
Oh that God would speak | 45 |
Failure to embrace | 57 |
Failure to dare | 59 |
Failure to bend | 61 |
But where shall wisdom be found? | 62 |
When God was with me | 63 |
Like a prince | 64 |
Let thorns grow | 65 |
Then Elihu became angry | 66 |
God opens the ears of men | 67 |
Then | 68 |
The fact | 69 |
The grace moment | 70 |
The God who listens | 71 |
Who is this? | 72 |
Words without knowledge | 73 |
Where were you? | 74 |
The morning | 75 |
Declare if you know | 76 |
Surely you know | 77 |
Gods storehouses | 78 |
Where no man is | 79 |
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The Color of the Night: Reflections on Suffering and the Book of Job Frost Gerhard,Gerhard E. Frost No preview available - 1998 |
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Page 21 - Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 48 - No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you ! But I have understanding as well as you ; I am not inferior to you...
Page 57 - Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Page 100 - My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Page 57 - Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
Page 23 - Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 15 - He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.