Be very Careful on stating what God can & can not do

 

April 16, 2020

 

Job 37:14 – 24

 

“Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.  Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?  Do you know the balancing’s of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge, you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?   Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror?  Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.  Shall it be told him that I would speak?   Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?   “And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies when the wind has passed and cleared them.  Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with awesome majesty.  The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.  Therefore, men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”

 

I shared with Jan this morning I was almost through with writing on Elihu, that the self-appointed spokesman was so full of himself.  She wondered aloud could it be you see a lot of yourself in that young man, and I said you may have hit the nail on the head.  But that’s not a true statement, I been guilted of talking too much, but I’ve never had the stupidity to believe I was a person of perfect knowledge, as Elihu has stated he was.

 

But with all the wrong things I’ve address that Elihu, has said we must not look past the points he makes that are on spot, like verses 19-20.  Job has stated he what to see God face to face and address his case, believing he would be justified.  We will see that does not go so well in the chapters left for us to read.

 

Yet one should be very careful making judgments of what God can and cannot do, in that 99% of the time we would error unless it is stated in the Scriptures.   Elihu, last words to Job is “fear God” and that God does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.  One thing is consistent, Elihu is angry with Job’s claim he is righteous before God and man, for he believes Job is self-righteous.  

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice

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