READING: Job 38-39, Acts 27:1-12
The questions God asks Job in today’s Old Testament reading are both penetrating and convicting. They are reminders—not so gentle reminders, actually—that He’s much mightier and we’re much less significant than we think. Consider these questions among several Job first heard, and think how you might answer:
- “Where were you when I established the earth?” (Job 38:4)
- “Or who laid its cornerstonewhile the morning stars sang togetherand all the sons of God shouted for joy?” (Job 38:6-7)
- “Have you ever in your life commanded the morningor assigned the dawn its place,so it may seize the edges of the earthand shake the wicked out of it?” (Job 38:12-13)
- “Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?Tell me, if you know all this.” (Job 38:18)
- “Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,for the day of warfare and battle?” (Job 38:23)
- “Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?Do they report to you: ‘Here we are’”? (Job 38:35)
God’s ways are so much grander and more majestic than anything we can do. No matter how much we might wrestle with pride, ego goes out the window when we remember that only God created the world, commands the days, speaks to the stars, and moves the weather. The point is really simple: God is God, and we’re not. That truth makes all the difference in the world.
PRAYER: “Father, remind me as often as needed that I’m not God.”
TOMORROW’S READING: Job 40-42, Acts 27:13-28:6
