The Man of Integrity

The Man of Integrity
Job 1: 1-5

Seminary chapel this morning focused on a devotional study of Psalm 23 that involved our asking which phrase in the psalm especially spoke to us. The phrase that leapt out for me was “my cup runs over.” I have been married for four months, and I love my new wife and my new life. We have just bought a new bicycle and have for the first time cycled to school together; I have a job I love; my two sons and my two daughters-in-law and my two grandchildren in England are doing well; and the sun is shining. Yet now I come to Job, and it reminds me that I have been this way before; forty-five years ago I was newly married with a new life and a job I loved, but my wife had an illness that would eventually disable her and take her life. Your cup can run over, but it can then run dry. (But maybe lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice.)...