Friday, September
22, 2023
A GOD SO BIG!
Job is an interesting
book! So many times, we turn to it trying to make
some sense of the misery of man but instead we find the majesty of God!
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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