Answer Me!

Scheduled Reading
Job 38:1-39:8; Psalm 106:16-21; Proverbs 22:19-20; 1 Corinthians 8:7-9:14

 Selected Passage: Job 38

"YOU answer ME! It's MY turn to ask you some questions now. It is YOUR turn to answer. You cannot even answer just ONE of my questions, and YOU desire to tell ME how to act?"

How arrogant we can be to think that we should advise GOD almighty on how to conduct the affairs of man. Our foolish and stubborn pride blinds us to the fact that we are but dust. From the dust we were created and to the dust we shall soon return. We are God's creation. We are the creature. God is the Creator. He is the potter. We are but clay. God has every right to do to us and with us as He sees fit. Furthermore, EVERYTHING He allows to happen to us, around us, for us, against us, good or bad, WILL serve to bring Him glory. Ours is only a matter of choosing to be a willing instrument to glorify God or an unwilling.

I don't envy Job and the plight that he faced. I can understand his arguments and protest. However, I cannot deny that God was in His absolute right to do as He saw fit with Job and his family. The very fact that the account is preserved for us in Scripture testifies to the fact that, although Job may not have seen the point in the test in HIS day, God has very effectively used those events to bring glory to His name in OUR day.

I wonder, how does Job view the trials he endured from his eternal perspective now?