Despite the fact that Job likely lived in the time of the patriarchs, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that his story appears in the Bible right before the book of Psalms. Chuck Swindoll gives us some good reasons to believe that Job lived around the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (source here). Chronologically, …
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Experiencing God As Our Refuge
What does it mean when the psalmist tells us that God is our refuge, and how do we experience this? In Psalm 46, we see that “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble” (46:1). Referring to the city of Jerusalem, the psalmist says that “God is in the midst of …
