It's hard to see the Lord's hand in all of this. To know that he has control of everything,often we are quick to think "oh he's punishing us" or "blame it on those sinful people". This is what Job has to say about God's power, even through all the pain he was going through.
His wisdom is profound, his power is vast.
Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?
5He moves mountains without their knowing it
and overturns them in his anger.
6He shakes the earth from its place
and makes its pillars tremble.
7He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;
he seals off the light of the stars.
8He alone stretches out the heavens
and treads on the waves of the sea.
9He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
10He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
miracles that cannot be counted.
11When he passes me, I cannot see him;
when he goes by, I cannot perceive him.
I think it's important that we remember who is in control. I feel like so often we are quick to pretend like we believe that God is in control, rather than ACTUALLY believing it. In verse 10, Job speaks of the unfathomable. Many of us are educated and we live in a world filled with knowledge, but there are some things that we will NEVER understand. As many theories as we have, it is sometimes frustrating to not have an answer to our problems. It is an active process of reminding yourself that God is in control. He knows your phone number, social security number, the number of breaths you take per minute, and the number of hairs on your head. He knows us.
In many ways though, we don't know him. When Job speaks in verse 11 about not being able to perceive or see God, I realize how hard it is for us to comprehend how God can be walking with each person on this earth every second of every minute in every day of our lives. We strive to make sense of God. Often, we end up putting human limitations on a God that is not human. He's so vast and different from us that we can't comprehend. That is not to take away from the idea of us being made in his image, because we were. But that's just it, an image is not the same as the being itself. There are things about a being that are different from an "image". I think of a painting of a person here. That one image may capture one set of emotions or thoughts, but it is definitely not all encompassing.
We have to get to know God, who he is, what he says, and how his love envelops us. I think after this past year that I deem "hell year", I've realized that even though I screwed up a LOT, his love was still enveloping me. I couldn't perceive him through my pain, but he was RIGHT THERE. I couldn't see him, but he was in the people around me, he held my hand when I cried at night, he laid down beside me while I was sleeping, and he spoke to me in my dreams. Even when I was denying him the love that he deserved for what he had already done for me, he still stuck around.
Anyways, those were my tangent thoughts for the day... They happen pretty frequently. So pray for rain and pray that rather than "knowing God" or "understanding God" in his entirety (because that can be annoyingly frustrating), that we would "get to know part of the vast God" and "understand ourselves as a child of God."
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