Digging Deeper Daily: By Daily Bible Reading PodcastSample

GENESIS 24:
In Genesis 22, Isaac asked,
22:7b GNT “I see that you have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?”
8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide one.”

It is amazing to me that Moses adds the proverb,
14 “even today people say, “On the Lord's mountain he provides.”

In our time, we easily see how this points to the provision of the Lamb of God on the mountain called Calvary.

JOB 13:
As we saw in chapter 12, Job by now is pretty ticked off, starting off with,

Job 12:1-2 GNT “Yes, you are the voice of the people. When you die, wisdom will die with you.

Note the irony Job points out:

4 Even my friends laugh at me now;
they laugh, although I am righteous and blameless;
but there was a time when God answered my prayers.
5 You have no troubles, and yet you make fun of me;
you hit someone who is about to fall.
6 But thieves and godless people live in peace,
though their only god is their own strength.

MARK 8b:
In yesterday's reading, Jesus fed the 4,000, and then the Pharisees demand a miraculous sign ‘showing God’s approval’— literally a sign ‘from heaven’. The reading yesterday ended with the disciples not understanding what Jesus meant by

Mrk. 8:15 GNT “Take care,” Jesus warned them, “and be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”