ISBN 0852345313

MINING FOR WISDOM
28 Daily Readings from Job

Derek Thomas

192pp   Large Paperback

In this twenty-eight-day devotional study, Derek Thomas takes us through Job’s trials, and how he deals with them, pointing us to the main message of the book. It is about wisdom — not the wisdom of man, but the wisdom of God, and thus shows us how, despite any suffering God may call us to go through, we can live our lives to his glory.

‘Following his widely-appreciated ‘Making the Most of Your Devotional Life’, Derek Thomas now takes us on a twenty-eight-day journey through the book of Job. Mining for Wisdom is many-sided in its qualities. It simultaneously provides daily Bible study for a month, a manual for spiritual journal writers, a guide for the suffering and perplexed, and a model of spiritual counsel.  Realistic, sensitive, practical, probing, pastoral — it is all of this and more besides.
     Dr Thomas himself has mined the great book of Job for many years. Here he uses its pages to shed light on dark experiences, cleanse the emotions, challenge the will and touch the heart. Mining for Wisdom is centred on God and full of God. Every page breathes his wisdom and presence. It is a spiritual classic and I cannot commend it too highly.’  
— Sinclair B. Ferguson, St George’s-Tron Church, Glasgow

Dr Derek Thomas holds a PhD in Calvin’s preaching on Job and is Associate Professor of Systematic and Practical Theology at the Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, Mississippi. He is also Dean of Chapel at the First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi, and Minister of Teaching.