God is much bigger than our understanding of Him!

 

Job 26:1-14

 

Job replies to Bildad and he implies that Bildad's path to success is great counsel to the unwise.   I’m sure of one thing, this does not look like a long friendship between Job and the three friends.

 

Bildad had given or added to Job’s discourse about God’s domination and his control over the heavens.  Now Job points out that Sheol the place, was also open to God's vision and that Abaddon the place of destruction for the wicked, in verses 5,6.

 

Verse seven I have no understanding of, and my Holman study Bible states Job is referring to God’s dwelling in the heavenly places.  They say the HSB gets this from Psalm 48:1-2, after reading those verses I believe it is a stretch to make that statement.

 

It seems to this uneducated writer of the Back Porch that verses 9-14, are referring to God's authority over the earth and the heavens, that it is God who has total control of all creation.  Verses 9-14, “He covers the face of the full moon^[ and spreads over it his cloud.  He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness. The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.   By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding, he shattered Rahab.  By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.   Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him!  But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

 

In closing today allow me to give this warning, God is much bigger than our understanding of Him!  Be careful not to put Him in a box of your religion, that is what Job’s three friends have done.  In Isaiah 55:8-9, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

 

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice