Continuing The God Show. You can find out more and get caught up HERE or at the link on the right under “other writings.”
The God Show is five channels (in addition to the Bible) that don't change over time or according to culture, where God's ways, invisible attributes, eternal power and divine nature are clearly perceived but often missed: 1. Nature, 2. Authority, 3. Family, 4. Marriage, 5. You. Really, he's all over the place.
We’re in the nature channel, beginning to see how the whole earth is filled with God’s holiness, and how Job gets to discover this in a very personal way when horrible things happen and he wants it to make sense.
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Starting in Job chapter 38, after Job and his friends have done all the talking, the Lord has His say. And He really doesn’t answer their questions.
Instead, God seems to want to show Job that Job cannot possibly come close to understanding and appreciating God’s ways. Job and his friends assume that they can and should figure out what God is doing and why -- and God acts like proving those assumptions wrong is more important than Job’s suffering. And to prove their assumptions wrong, God does not go into long, intellectual pronouncements like Job’s friends do. God just points. Again and again He points.
He points at what He has created.
He takes everyday natural things that Job is familiar with, things that Job has maybe taken for granted, and He opens Job’s eyes to what those things say about God, and about Job’s ability (and expectation) to figure things out. God proves how holy and set apart He is by showing Job what God has done that Job hasn’t, and can’t, do, or understand.
Job has been asking God questions, and now God says, “You don’t have a right to demand or expect answers -- but I do. Now I have some questions for YOU and I DO have a right to YOUR answers.” And in asking Job these questions, God asks us, too. It’s as if God is saying, ”before we move on with addressing your situation and your questions, let’s get it straight about who you are and who I am…” This must be important.
And God opens Job’s eyes by turning to the nature channel.
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