Mary Ellen Osborn's Blog – January 2014 Archive (3)

I recently discovered that I have Jewish ancestors on my mom and dad's sides of the family. It was hard to take seriously because it was mostly rumors in the family and the subject of jokes. On my dad's side, his mom's family barely escaped from Germany. They left everything behind. It was rumored that it was my dad's dad that had Jewish ancestry. I could never make the timing justify. I never met my grandmother Fox. She died long before I was born. That's why I didn't think of her having…

The book of Job shows how satan was the individual harming Job. The book of Job also shows us how disaster can strike, but God can also turn things around for us.

(Job 1:1-4) There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five…

The Word of God is God's thoughts and intent for us. If we want to know what God thinks, we have to go to the Bible. Every verse in Psalm 119 is about the Word of God. (All verses cited come from Psalm 119 unless I say otherwise.)

Through God's Word, we are blessed and gain understanding.

Keeping God's Word is a blessing. (119:1,2) Verse 4 sets the standard. We're to keep His Word diligently. Ignorance is not bliss. The Book of Hosea says God's people are destroyed for…