A
GOD SO BIG!
Job
37:23
23
Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is
excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not
afflict.
Elihu, one of Job’s “friends” had come
to watch Job suffer
and to try and make some sense of it all. It simply did
not make any sense! Job, by all observation was a fastidious and righteous man
and yet he was suffering as if he had awakened the wrath of God. Job’s sin, if
there was a sin, could not be determined although measured by the actions of
God it must be huge and horrible.
Job had steadfastly proclaimed his
innocence
and had complained that God was acting in a way that seemed contrary to His
nature. Did not God punish sin and reward righteousness?
Why, then was Job suffering if he was guiltless? Neither Job nor his friends
could have imagined the conflict in Heaven or of God’s grand purposes.
Adam Clarke’s commentary says of the phrase
[He will not afflict.] Lo' yªaneh, he will not ANSWER. He will
give account of none of his matters to us. We cannot comprehend his motives,
nor the ends he has in view.
When we try to force God to be
thoroughly understood
by our minds we make Him so small that he can’t act as He must. Majesty is lost
and glory fades in our shrinking of God to our own human size.
Rom
11:33
33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how
unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
1
Tim 6:16
16
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach
unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power
everlasting. Amen.
Dear
Lord, when we contemplate your majesty we agree with the Psalmist who said
“what is man that thou art mindful of him.” Yet you bend low to attend to us
and you condescend to care for us. Thank you God! AMEN
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