It’s amazing to think how arrogant we are.
How do I say this?
When is the last time you gave thanks for the mere fact that the sun came up or the sky is blue? When was the last time you took inventory of the number of toes or fingers you have or the beat of your heart or the blink of an eye?
Can you identify every molecular make up of one hair on your heard or name each bone in your body? Let’s take time and see how many insects or flowers or birds or fish we can name. Let’s make this easier. How about we control which way the wind will blow or let’s make it rain on demand.
I think you get me point. In the book of Job God has this exact conversation with Job when Job started questioning God here is a brief expert from chapter 38.
Job 38:1-8
The LORD answers Job.
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Dress for action like a man.
I will question you, and you make it known to me.
“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me if you have understanding.
Who determined its measurements—surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
“Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb.”
God goes on for 71 verses over two chapters before Job finally gets it.
We are arrogant by the mere fact we wake up and take for granted the miracles all around us and within us.
When we think that all of creation and the human life was anything less than a miracle Created at the hands of an all-powerful God then we are assuming that we had something to do with it.
Back to Gods questioning Job. If we had a role in all of creation, then let’s boldly claim it. If not then let us humble ourselves before God.
Lord, thank you for showing us how loving and caring and powerful you are.
Just a Thought…
