BBD 06.07.16 Questions (New)

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Since June 8^th 1998, this
is the 1753^rd

Burning Bush Devotional

07 June 2016

Questions

For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout
again, and that its tender shoots will not cease. Though its root may grow old
in the earth, and its stump may die in the ground, yet at the scent of water it
will bud and bring forth branches like a plant. But man dies and is laid away;
indeed he breathes his last and where is he? As water disappears from the sea,
and a river becomes parched and dries up, so man lies down and does not rise. Till
the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor be roused from their sleep. Oh,
that You would hide me in the grave, that You would conceal me until Your wrath
is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man dies,
shall he live again? – Job 14:7-14 NKJV.

Have you ever wondered how many shakes it takes for a dog
to dry? Apparently, some government scientist wondered the same thing and spent
$390,000 to find out. However, the answer must be a secret, because I still
cannot find the answer to that question. Have you ever wondered if you could
out run a dinosaur? A government scientist also wanted the answer to that
question, and spent $1.9 million to find out. Have you ever thought that
Facebook might be addictive? Someone in the government, or was it Facebook
wanted an answer to that and spent $511,860 to find out. I could have told them
the answer to that one for free. Have you ever wondered which has more hairs, a
squirrel or a bumble bee? Who thinks up these questions! The government spent
$753,000 to find the answer to that one. Then there is the question of the
ages, why is yawning contagious? I’ve wondered about that too, but I would not
have spent $1,000,000 to try to find out!! These questions all came from Senator Jeff Flakes’ “20 Questions: Government Studies that will
leave you scratching your head.” Okay, one more. Why does the face
of Jesus appear on toast? I don’t know, but the government spent $3.5 million
to try to find out.

Most would agree that Job experienced life at its worst.
All of Job’s children were killed, and then the “fire
of God” (Job 1:16) burned up his sheep and many of his servants. Next
the Chaldeans came, and carried away all of Job’s camels and killed the rest of
his servants, except for the one who escaped to share the bad news. If that was
not enough, Job was afflicted then with sore boils (Job
2:7) all over his body. In addition, Job’s wife was not all that
supportive either (Job 2:9). Perhaps even worse
were his “friends” who were miserable
counselors with a half-truth theology. W. A.
Criswell says this about Job’s friends: “All three of Job’s friends have the same
theology: Righteousness will be blessed, and evil will be punished. This is
only a half truth. Ultimately, the wicked will be punished and the righteous
rewarded, but in the meantime even righteous men will suffer because of sin,
testing or the pressures of other men.”

Job has many questions for God, as we would have too, if
we had been afflicted like that man. In Job 38 and 39
we have the longest list of questions in the Bible. Government scientists might
want to consider some of those questions. We often hear of the “small still voice” of God (1
Kings 19:12). However, God has a different voice that God used to ask
His questions of Job. “Then the Lord answered Job out
of the whirlwind (Job 38:1).” That
would get your attention!

God did not answer His own questions for Job, but Job did
have the answer to the most important question of all: If a man dies, shall he live again (Job 14:14)? And the answer is found in Job
19:25-27: “For I know that
my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my
skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see
God, Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold,
and not another. How my heart
yearns within me!”

Copyright © 2016. Ed Wrather. The
Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June 8, 1998
the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed Wrather
began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those first
devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to prison
facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
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Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Prayer
Requests:
Please continue to pray for McCoy Greer, Michelle Abetz,
Shane Hall, Brad, Reta (my sister), Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Since June 8^th 1998, this
is the 1753^rd

Burning Bush Devotional

07 June 2016

Questions

For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout
again, and that its tender shoots will not cease. Though its root may grow old
in the earth, and its stump may die in the ground, yet at the scent of water it
will bud and bring forth branches like a plant. But man dies and is laid away;
indeed he breathes his last and where is he? As water disappears from the sea,
and a river becomes parched and dries up, so man lies down and does not rise. Till
the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor be roused from their sleep. Oh,
that You would hide me in the grave, that You would conceal me until Your wrath
is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man dies,
shall he live again? – Job 14:7-14 NKJV.

Have you ever wondered how many shakes it takes for a dog
to dry? Apparently, some government scientist wondered the same thing and spent
$390,000 to find out. However, the answer must be a secret, because I still
cannot find the answer to that question. Have you ever wondered if you could
out run a dinosaur? A government scientist also wanted the answer to that
question, and spent $1.9 million to find out. Have you ever thought that
Facebook might be addictive? Someone in the government, or was it Facebook
wanted an answer to that and spent $511,860 to find out. I could have told them
the answer to that one for free. Have you ever wondered which has more hairs, a
squirrel or a bumble bee? Who thinks up these questions! The government spent
$753,000 to find the answer to that one. Then there is the question of the
ages, why is yawning contagious? I’ve wondered about that too, but I would not
have spent $1,000,000 to try to find out!! These questions all came from Senator Jeff Flakes’ “20 Questions: Government Studies that will
leave you scratching your head.” Okay, one more. Why does the face
of Jesus appear on toast? I don’t know, but the government spent $3.5 million
to try to find out.

Most would agree that Job experienced life at its worst.
All of Job’s children were killed, and then the “fire
of God” (Job 1:16) burned up his sheep and many of his servants. Next
the Chaldeans came, and carried away all of Job’s camels and killed the rest of
his servants, except for the one who escaped to share the bad news. If that was
not enough, Job was afflicted then with sore boils (Job
2:7) all over his body. In addition, Job’s wife was not all that
supportive either (Job 2:9). Perhaps even worse
were his “friends” who were miserable
counselors with a half-truth theology. W. A.
Criswell says this about Job’s friends: “All three of Job’s friends have the same
theology: Righteousness will be blessed, and evil will be punished. This is
only a half truth. Ultimately, the wicked will be punished and the righteous
rewarded, but in the meantime even righteous men will suffer because of sin,
testing or the pressures of other men.”

Job has many questions for God, as we would have too, if
we had been afflicted like that man. In Job 38 and 39
we have the longest list of questions in the Bible. Government scientists might
want to consider some of those questions. We often hear of the “small still voice” of God (1
Kings 19:12). However, God has a different voice that God used to ask
His questions of Job. “Then the Lord answered Job out
of the whirlwind (Job 38:1).” That
would get your attention!

God did not answer His own questions for Job, but Job did
have the answer to the most important question of all: If a man dies, shall he live again (Job 14:14)? And the answer is found in Job
19:25-27: “For I know that
my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my
skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see
God, Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold,
and not another. How my heart
yearns within me!”

Copyright © 2016. Ed Wrather. The
Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June 8, 1998
the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed Wrather
began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those first
devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to prison
facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Prayer
Requests:
Please continue to pray for McCoy Greer, Michelle Abetz,
Shane Hall, Brad, Reta (my sister), Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by sending
a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the
confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time
constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by
sending a blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

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