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Forgiving costs us our sense of justice. We all have this innate sense deep within our souls, but it has been perverted by our selfish sinful natures. We want to see “justice” done, but the justice we envision satisfies our own interests. We must realize that justice has been done. God is the only rightful administrator of justice in all of creation, and His justice has been satisfied. In order to forgive our brother, we must be satisfied with God’s justice and forego the satisfaction of our own.
Jerry Bridges

If a church is to be what it ought to be for the purposes of God, we must train it in the holy art of prayer. Churches without prayer-meetings are grievously common. Even if there were only one such, it would be one to weep over. In many churches the prayer-meeting is only the skeleton of a gathering: the form is kept up, but the people do not come. There is no interest, no power, in connection with the meeting. Oh, my brothers, let it not be so with you! Do train the people to continually meet together for prayer. Rouse them to incessant supplication. There is a holy art in it. Study to show yourselves approved by the prayerfulness of your people. If you pray yourself, you will want them to pray with you; and when they begin to pray with you, and for you, and for the work of the Lord, they will want more prayer themselves, and the appetite will grow. Believe me, if a church does not pray, it is dead. Instead of putting united prayer last, put it first. Everything will hinge upon the power of prayer in the church.
C.H. Spurgeon

Bible – Afrikaans – Job Chapter 10:1-22.

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10:1 Ek walg van my lewe; ek wil my geklaag die vrye loop gee; ek wil spreek in die bitterheid van my siel.

10:2 Ek sê tot God: Veroordeel my nie; laat my weet waarom U met my twis.

10:3 Is dit voordeel vir U dat U verdruk; dat U die arbeid van u hande verwerp, terwyl U oor die planne van die goddelose lig laat skyn?

10:4 Het U vleeslike oë? Of sien U soos ‘n mens sien?

10:5 Is u dae soos die dae van ‘n mens, of u jare soos die dae van ‘n man?

10:6 dat U soek na my ongeregtigheid en vra na my sonde,

10:7 ofskoon U weet dat ek nie skuldig is nie en dat daar niemand is wat uit u hand kan red nie?

10:8 U hande het my geformeer en my gemaak, heeltemal rondom; en U vernietig my!

10:9 Bedink tog dat U my soos klei gevorm het, en wil U my tot stof laat terugkeer?

10:10 Het U my nie soos melk uitgegiet en my soos kaas laat dik word nie?

10:11 Met vel en vlees het U my beklee, en met beendere en senings het U my deurvleg.

10:12 Die lewe, ja, guns het U aan my bewys, en u sorg het my gees bewaak.

10:13 Maar daarby het U dít verberg in u hart, ek weet dat dít u toeleg was:

10:14 As ek gesondig het, sou U my waarneem en my nie vryspreek van my ongeregtigheid nie.

10:15 Was ek skuldig–wee my! En was ek regverdig, ek sou my hoof nie kon ophef nie, sat van skande en bewus van my ellende.

10:16 En as my hoof hom ophef, sou U my jaag soos ‘n leeu en U opnuut wonderbaarlik teenoor my gedra.

10:17 U sou altyd nuwe getuies teen my bring en u grimmigheid teen my vermeerder–altyd nuwe leërafdelings teen my!

10:18 Waarom tog het U my uit die moederskoot laat uitgaan? Ek moes gesterf het sonder dat ‘n oog my gesien het.

10:19 Ek moes gewees het of ek daar nie was nie; van die moederskoot af moes ek na die graf gedra gewees het.

10:20 Is my dae nie min nie? Laat Hy ophou, my laat staan, dat ek ‘n bietjie vrolik kan wees,

10:21 voordat ek heengaan–en nie terugkom nie–na die land van duisternis en doodskaduwee,

10:22 ‘n land van donkerheid, soos middernag, van doodskaduwee en wanorde, en dit gee ‘n skynsel–soos middernag!