The Lord Speaks

August 28

Job 38-39

Psalm 98:1-3

Proverbs 21:13-15

Galatians 3

The Lord Speaks

“Where were you when I established the Earth? Tell Me if you have understanding.”  Who fixed its dimensions?  Certainly, you know!  Who stretched a measuring line across it?  Who supports its foundations? 

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket, when I determined its boundaries and put its bars in place, when I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; your proud waves stop here.’?

Have you ever in your life commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place so it may seize the edges of the Earth and shake the wicked out of it? 

Have you traveled to the sources of the sea or walked in the depths of the oceans?

Have the gates of death been revealed to you?  Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?  Have you comprehended the extent of the Earth?  Tell Me if you know all this. 

Where is the road to the home of light?  Do you know where darkness lives, so you can lead it back to its border? 

Have you entered the place where the snow is stored? Or have you seen the storehouses of hail, which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of warfare and battle?

Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the Earth?  Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain or clears the way for the lightning, to bring rain on an uninhabited land, on a desert with no human life, to satisfy the parched wasteland and cause the grass to sprout? 

Can you bring out the constellations in their season and lead the Bear and her cubs? 

Do you know the laws of Heaven! Can you impose its authority on Earth? Can you command the clouds so that a flood water covers you?  Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? 

Who put wisdom in the heart or gave the mind understanding? Job 38 (HCSB)

Questioning God is utterly pointless.  He is sovereign.  He is almighty.  He is Lord.  In every situation He knows best, and we are foolish to doubt.  It is good to read Job 38 periodically to humble us and remind us that He is God, and we are not!