A Study in Job

Job then begins to speak of God’s wisdom and greatness. He says, “He removes the mountains, and they do not know when He overturns them in His anger; He shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble; He commands the sun, and it does not rise; He seals off the stars…”

Before I became a Christian, God was a distant heavenly figure, who had little or no part in earthly affairs. However, the moment I was converted, I began to understand that the sun rises because God causes it to rise. He spoke it into existence, set it in motion so that its rays would hit the earth, guides every one of the trillions upon trillions of light beams that race at the speed of light to ripen apples and tomatoes. Nothing happens without God’s permissive hand. Without Him, volcanoes don’t erupt, the earth doesn’t quake, the sun doesn’t rise, the stars don’t shine, the heavens don’t exist, dogs don’t bark, apples don’t grow and seeds don’t sow. He holds our very breath in His hands. In Him we live, and move, and have our being. As water saturates the oceans, His presence saturates life:

“Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite. The Lord lifts up the humble; He casts the wicked down to the ground. Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; Sing praises on the harp to our God, Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who makes grass to grow on the mountains. 9 He gives to the beast its food, And to the young ravens that cry” (Psalm 147:5-9).
Job then laments the fact that the life he knows is quickly draining from him. He says, “Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good. They pass by like swift ships, like an eagle swooping on its prey."

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