Day 23- Genesis 45; Job 21-23; Psalm 13

Let me start by saying, I love the flow of Psalm 13.  It wraps up the majority of the lessons today, too.  Henry describes it as,

the deserted souls case and cure

Henry points out, of some significance in our lives now, of Genesis,

Note, Those that are wealthy should be generous, and devise liberal things; what is an abundance good for, but to do good with it?

And on Joseph's father being "ready" for death,

Note, It is good for us all to make death familiar to us, and to speak of it as near, that we may think how little we have to do before we die, that we may do it with all our might, and may enjoy our comforts as those that must quickly die, and leave them.          

 So, I don't know how Henry gets this, but he seems pretty wise in the understanding of the Bible, so, here is his take on what Job and his friends have been arguing about.  I like it because I can apply it to arguments I have been hearing over the past few years.  Of Job 21 he says, 

Whether outward prosperity, and the continuance of it, were a mark of the true church and the true members of it, so that the ruin of a man’s prosperity is sufficient to prove him a hypocrite, though no other evidence appear against him: this they asserted, but Job denied.

and he goes on to describe the mindset of each Job and his friends in Job 22,

It was one of the unhappinesses of Job, as it is of many an honest man, to be misunderstood by his friends. He had spoken of the prosperity of wicked men in this world as a mystery of Providence, but they took it for a reflection upon Providence, as countenancing their wickedness; and they reproached him accordingly. 

and closes on the final comments of Job in verse 23,

seems to be a struggle between flesh and spirit, fear and faith...

 Yes, we do seem to have this struggle, regularly...night!