"Who is this that obscures My plans without knowledge?...Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?...Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orian's belt?" (Job 28, NIV)
If Job, "obscures...plans...without knowledge," what were the others doing?
Regular readers are probably hoping I "get over" the Book of Job. But Job is one of the, if not the earliest Writings of the Covenant People. Maybe we can say that Job has certain precedential authority in Divine Revelation. Our text is "The Eternal One," Father, Son and Holy Spirit, challenging Job to consider just what he had been attempting to accomplish in his theological discourse.
The events of the Book of Job could have transpired over a period of a month, or more, while all this time God was silent; then, His first Words, "Where were you?" This is a fundamental "wake-up-to-reality" of Jesus, "The Word of God," to Job. It is quite clear: "Job, I was here before all of it; you weren't. How could you ever hope to understand?" The opening discourse of, "The Word of God," is full of irony, even a sort of Divine sarcasm, "Tell Me if you understand....Surely you know!...For you were already born! You have lived so many years!"
You and I need the same "challenge" and reminder from time to time. Perhaps it would lessen anxiety, frustration, and any attempts to "make sense of it all." And there is something which I am seeing more and more as the years go by: For some of life, there just are no answers, no "explanation," nothing to satisfy our humanistic bewilderment. "Come to Me...and learn from Me," saith the Lord Jesus Christ. In Jesus and His Words alone is the "relief" from life's bewilderment.
Father, in Jesus' Name, "Out of life's storm and into Thy calm,
Out of distress to jubilant psalm,
Jesus, I come to Thee!" Amen.
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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
