"A Lesson From Job"

  Take some time and read Job 38-42. After Job and his three friends go the distance in their analysis of God and why, The Almighty speaks. He begins out of a whirlwind. The Almighty increases to speak out of a storm. The Almighty was making a point to feeble man.

  In this book recorded for us, God shows man (through Job) his ignorance! A series of questions for man to answer. "Do you know...? I want you to instruct Me! Where were you when...?" God continues to expose man in his thought process by showing man's powerlessness by asking, "What can you really accomplish?" God then raises His inquiry to expose man's lack of wisdom by asking, "What do you understand about...?" And finally the Almighty from the storm confronting man and his lack of consistency by asking, "If this bothers you why don't these other things bother you?"

  Job is a powerful book, not about Job but God Himself! Here is a man that wishes to sit in judgment on God and it seems as though God says, "What makes you challenge the righteous governing of the Almighty when I am your Creator?" Job wanted a face to face with God and he got it but quickly found out that man is not capable of running his own life much less a universe! God is not under the control of man yet we find many times we want Him at our bidding to do this and that!

  In the end Job covers his mouth and repents for his arrogance. God didn't mean to harm Job but when God spoke out of the storm there was a reason for it. The Almighty didn't come quietly to man, sit by his side, put His arm around Job's shoulder, patting him on the back saying, "Now, now you should feel better that you got all that off you chest!" That is not saying God was railing at Job. God was pleased with him from the beginning and Job was called a righteous man. God loved this man and because of that love he had to be rebuked because of his insolence.

  In these few chapters God took Job on a brief tour of His creation and how things were run. What we learn is this is a world man did not create, a world man knows little about and a world over which man has NO control. From the heights to the depths, on the earth to the skies, from the foundations that were laid to the distant galaxies God showed man that man is powerless! It left Job speechless. It should leave us speechless. As sovereign Lord, as our Redeemer, as a Holy and Righteous God rules, He can govern the world any way He sees fit because He alone created it all because He simply loves. Praise be to God!