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In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The majesty and glory of God's sovereign administration of His redemption plan are on display. God runs simultaneous boot camps. He trains Moses and Aaron to lead by speaking and obey His word. He exposes the hard-heartedness of Pharaoh and patiently preserves him for judgment with all of Egypt. He acts and spea...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God shows that He is good and His word is true. The future things He spoke to Abraham will come to pass. Every promise He makes, He will fulfill. God raises up a deliverer for His people. The Egyptians reject God’s blessing, His people, and His revelation. Let’s dive into today’s reading!

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God corrects Job’s wrong thinking about the way God administers justice. God desires to be known as Creator. Only He possesses all authority, all power, and all wisdom. Because of this, God is able to sovereignty administer perfect justice. This is important to God. If man does not trust the way He administers j...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God responds to Job in the presence of his friends. They have all boldly referenced the approaching storm in order to make points about God. When God speaks from that storm and reveals He has heard all that was said, all of the men experience what must have been a heart-stopping moment. Notice today’s introducto...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Elihu reminds Job that God is perfect in His administration of justice. He can be trusted because He is Creator. His authority, power, and wisdom are unmatched. Elihu explains that God allows a passage of time before He judges the wicked and rescues the innocent. It is good that God waits. Because God waits, His...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Elihu angrily rebukes the four men who speak idle words about God. He is zealous for God's name, and he defends God's character. For Elihu, there may not be a good explanation for Job's suffering. However, none of the men should waiver while thinking about God's justice. When God is being accused of perverting j...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Job continues his lament from yesterday’s reading. He is depressed—for good reason! He continues to struggle because he believes God is acting to destroy him. He understands what faith looks like when manifested in works. And he despairs in his circumstance because he believes his faith should determine his circ...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Job lashes out at his friends one last time. Then he laments the loss of his peace, family, wealth, honor, and influence. God is approaching in a storm. He will speak and put an end to broken relationships and sorrow. The friend's accusations today will be forgiven. God will demand that Job pray for them rather...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Eliphaz wrongly builds a theology that holds to a god who does not love or value those created in his image. Bildad adds to this theology that his god glories in his power and dreadfulness. These men doom man to reflect the glory of terror. Job also confuses the correct view of God’s sovereignty because He attem...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The introductory commentary directs our attention to the realities of navigating suffering and loss. Scripture allows us to identify with Job’s crisis journey. It is a hills and valleys pathway of both self-pity and desperate hope in God. Let me remind you of what the commentary says: “Experiencing loss (of fami...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The conversation turns intimately personal as the men jockey for intellectual superiority. Attempts to outdo one another with wisdom always require the destruction of one’s character. Friends become foes in religious doctrinal arguments. Man becomes the final authority for correct belief, and circumstance become...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Job responds to Zophar out of deep suffering. He is suffering the loss of all he owned, his children, and his influence among people. He is a broken man. The introductory commentary sets the context for our processing of Job’s words. “The book of Job permits sufferers to think things through, to ponder out loud,...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The dialogue between Job and his friends escalates into a full-blown theological argument. Like many theological arguments, this debate digresses into a competition to prove who is wiser. Remember that at the beginning of this story, God calls Job His servant. At the end of the story, God will call Job His serva...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Eliphaz’s words make matters worse for Job. He is convinced Job’s circumstance is the result of sin. He believes Job should make his case to God, allow God to expose his sin, and be restored. It is tiresome to read Eliphaz’s advice based on his own life experience and supposed mystical encounter with a spirit, b...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The story of Job occurs in the Patriarch Era. The story traces the reality of what is really happening—what God knows to be true—and the struggle of men who perceive what they believe is happening. Job’s story can be difficult to navigate because a large amount of text is given to theological discussion filled w...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The main patriarch storyline comes to a close, fast-forwarding to Jacob and Joseph’s deaths. There are six orders of business to which must be tended for the flourishing of the next generations in light of what God promised. Jacob’s burial site demonstrates confidence in God’s faithfulness and submission to His...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The future things God tells Abraham in Genesis 15, provide a backdrop for the newly liberated Hebrews in the wilderness—fresh with the lived experience of redemption through the Passover and eye witnesses to the destruction of Egypt’s military power, financial dominance, and world influence. As God catches them...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The NKJV translates 1 Chronicles 5:2: 2 yet Judah prevailed over his brothers, and from him came a ruler, although the birthright was Joseph’s— This is exactly how the Septuagint translates this Hebrew verse into Greek. Judah was able to be stronger than his brothers. Judah, committing his life for the life of h...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God sovereignly acts by speaking in four dreams to three men. He demonstrates to the Egyptians that He is God alone, and the Egyptians respond to God’s revelation. By acting, God administers this era. He lifts Joseph from his trial and sets the stage for Joseph’s brothers to be restored—renewed to the promise of...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The narrative of Scripture zeros in on Joseph’s story. Through January 18, we will read the details of how God administers the future thing He told Abraham in Genesis 15. Abraham’s descendants will be enslaved in a foreign land for four hundred years, but God will visit them afterward, judge the enslaving nation...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The entire day is a day of genealogies! Raise your hand if you were blessed! There is nothing like reading a list of names you can’t pronounce and won’t remember to leave you scratching your head and wondering just what the Lord wants you to get out of the reading! There are some significant truths couched in th...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Jacob faces his fear of Esau and his disgust with his own past. Knowing all that he has is the result of his own sinful behavior, Jacob pleads with God to bless him. God blesses Him by changing his name. He will no longer embrace the identity of one who is always attempting to overcome. God gives him a new ident...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Jacob learns the true meaning of God being with him. He discovers that his efforts to protect himself have not made him wealthy. God has been working in the background to accomplish this. Jacob finally learns to rely on the Lord’s presence in his life rather than his own ingenuity. Rachel has not learned this le...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God confirms His approval of Jacob’s inherited Seed of Promise. Jacob doesn’t realize it yet, but God will not allow him to enjoy the blessings of his inheritance without being confronted with his lack of faith. God will be with him for more than just protection and blessing. God will expose his character and tr...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The story traces Isaac's faith journey as he learns to walk with God by faith in what God has said despite what his circumstances present him. We also see three contrasts between Esau and Jacob. God has already declared the inheritance of the Seed of Promise will come through Jacob. Now we get to see how it all...