Daily Devotion Thursday Thoughts | February 5, 2026

It’s Thursday, and time for your daily devotion. As the oldest book of the Bible, Job is set in ancient times before the patriarchs or the formation of Israel. Before the law or the Bible was ever written, Job lived and worshipped God. During his trial, he pivots from bouts of despair to bursts of hope. In your daily devotion, know that your hope today is in God. 

Job’s Hope

Throughout Job’s defenses, he believes God is unjustly punishing him, yet knows God alone is his only hope. In Job 9:33, he longs for a mediator, one who can stand between him and God: “Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.” In your daily devotion, rejoice that Scripture declares, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” 

Seeking an Advocate

In Job 13:24, he cries, “Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?” and in verse 26, he says, “For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.” Moreover, Job contends in 16:19,  “I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder.” Though he agonizes, Job is assured that heaven has his answer.

In verse 19, he says, “Behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.” Then in verse 21, he says, “O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!” In this daily devotion, Job desires an advocate who’ll plead his case before God. Proclaim that your advocate is Jesus!

My Redeemer Lives

In Job 19:8-10, Job laments God has “stripped me of my glory,” also “destroyed me on every side“ and “kindled his wrath against me,” but in verse 25, he expresses hope: “ For I know that my redeemer liveth.” From the annals of antiquity, Job calls for a Redeemer. In verse 27, he says, “Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold.” In today’s daily devotion, know that Scripture declares that all eyes shall behold the Lord.

Glory of the Past

In 21:7-15, Job comments on the good fortunes of the wicked and how their seed seems established, yet he refuses to yield in 27:6: “My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go.” In 29:2, he craves days of old: “Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me.” He remembers when his children were all around him, and he was well-respected in the city gates.

His life was full, as men sought his counsel, and out of his magnanimous heart, he helped the poor and needy. Now he’s a laughing stock to those once scorned by society. In Job 31, Job argues that he would accept punishment if it were for something he’s done wrong.

Job has vowed, in Job 13:15, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.” In verse 16, Job remarks that a hypocrite will not stand before God, and he doesn’t count himself a hypocrite. In this daily devotion, Job considers himself a man who needs a Savior, a Rescuer from his torment. 

The Savior is Here

In Thursday’s daily devotion, Job prayed for a Savior who is here! Jesus has died and been resurrected. And He lives to make intercession for you. Redemption has always been in God’s plan, and maybe Job saw a sliver of it. Job may have been a contemporary of Abraham, Jesus’s forefather. If so, when he lived on the earth, hope, forty-two generations to come, lived along with him.