What is Your Lamp? – A Quick Word of Encouragement For You
My OT devotional reading has been “stuck” in the Book of Job. :-) Not my favorite book in the Bible, but it is part of the daily devotional reading and it is the word of God. (We know there are parts of the Bible we would rather skip over!)
This verse was interesting:
“A lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease; It is made ready for those whose feet slip.” (Job 12:5)
In this text, Job was starting to answer the criticism of his “friends.“ (They were more helpful when they were silent!)
My insight: This verse warns against spiritual arrogance and the complacency of the comfortable. When you are going through a hard place, the things (lamp) you depend on are neither understood nor appreciated by people who are “at ease” – unaffected by things that affect you.
Your lamp is there to guide you when (not if) your feet slip.
Action Items:
1. Gravitate to real friends. People who love at all times. (Prov. 17:17)
2. Criticizers are only spectators – like trolls on social media
3. Know your “lamps” – your sources of strength.
My insight: This verse warns against spiritual arrogance and the complacency of the comfortable. When you are going through a hard place, the things (lamp) you depend on are neither understood nor appreciated by people who are “at ease” – unaffected by things that affect you.
Your lamp is there to guide you when (not if) your feet slip.
Action Items:
1. Gravitate to real friends. People who love at all times. (Prov. 17:17)
2. Criticizers are only spectators – like trolls on social media
3. Know your “lamps” – your sources of strength.
