January 13,Wednesday-Our Daily Bread(2010)

"God wants us to come to Him with our complaints.If we march through life pretending to smile while inside we bleed, we dishonour the realtionship." - Philip Yancey
                                                           

Give him each perplexing problem,

All your needs to Him make known;

Bring to Him your daily burdens-

Never carry them alone! - Adams

courtesy:Our Daily Bread, Annual Edition 2010.

Habakkuk 1:1-4

Habakkuk 1

 ¹ The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet received.

Habakkuk's Complaint

 ² How long, O LORD, must I call for help,
       but you do not listen?
       Or cry out to you, "Violence!"
       but you do not save?  ³ Why do you make me look at injustice?
       Why do you tolerate wrong?
       Destruction and violence are before me;
       there is strife, and conflict abounds.
 ⁴ Therefore the law is paralyzed,
       and justice never prevails.
       The wicked hem in the righteous,
       so that justice is perverted.

Job 7:1-11
 ¹ "Does not man have hard service on earth?
       Are not his days like those of a hired man?
 ² Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,
       or a hired man waiting eagerly for his wages,
 ³ so I have been allotted months of futility,
       and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
 ⁴ When I lie down I think, 'How long before I get up?'
       The night drags on, and I toss till dawn.
 ⁵ My body is clothed with worms and scabs,
       my skin is broken and festering.
 ⁶ "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,
       and they come to an end without hope.
 ⁷ Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;
       my eyes will never see happiness again.
 ⁸ The eye that now sees me will see me no longer;
       you will look for me, but I will be no more.
 ⁹ As a cloud vanishes and is gone,
       so he who goes down to the grave ^[a] does not return.
 ¹⁰ He will never come to his house again;
       his place will know him no more.
 ¹¹ "Therefore I will not keep silent;
       I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit,
       I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.