Are You "Between a Rock and a Hard Place"? You Are If You Know Not God Through His Christ by the Rebirth? It is Called Hell! A Point to Ponder . . .
- Dr. Roger D Duke
- Jan 30
- 2 min read
A Meditation for Friday January 30, 2026
From the Pen of John Bunyan author of The Pilgrim's Progress
Between a Rock and a
Hard Place
“In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him”
Job 20: 22.
If you would be faithful to do the work that God has appointed, you to do in this world for his name. Then labor away to possess your heart with a right understanding. Labor both [for the] things that this world yields and of the things that shall be hereafter. I am confident that most, if not all the miscarriages of the saints and people of God [are that] they have their rise from deceivable thoughts here. The things of this world appear to us more [than] those that are to come. And consequently, it is that many are so hot and eager for things that be in this world, and so cold and heartless for those that be in heaven. Satan is here a mighty artist and can show us all earthly things in a multiplying glass. But when we look up to things above, we see them as through sackcloth of hair. But take . . . heed, be not ruled by your sensual appetite that can only savor fleshly things. Neither be . . . ruled by carnal reason which always darkens the things of heaven. But go to the Word, and as that says, so judge [yourself by it]. That tells you all things under the sun are vanity, and worse [even] vexation of spirit (Ecclesiastes 1: 2). Will you set your heart upon that which is not[hing]? “for riches certainly make themselves wings, they fly away as an eagle toward heaven” (Proverbs 23: 5). The same may be said for honors, pleasures, and the like; they are poor, low, base things to be entertained by a Christian’s heart. The man that has most of them may “in the fulness of his sufficiency be in straits [a difficult place]” (Job 20: 22).
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