A GOD SO BIG!

 

Sunday, February 25, 2024

 

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, or 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