Job 38-42

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But Now My Eye Sees You

Finally, Job’s request to have an audience with God was fulfilled. However, Job’s boldness to confront God seemed to dissolve when God asked the first question, “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?” This question was applicable to Job and his three friends because they reasoned from a faulty premise. They all believed that God was afflicting Job, therefore they were asking the wrong question: “Why was God afflicting Job?” The real question was the one asked by Satan, “Does Job fear God for nothing?” (If the blessings and protection from God were removed, would Job still fear God or would he curse God?) So, God established the correct premise with a summation about His creative and sustaining powers. And then Job realized how little he understood and how small he was compared to God. Then God asked Job a second question, “Will you condemn Me that you may be justified?” Did Job really think that he was qualified to judge God? If Job wasn’t even a match for the Behemoth, what made him so presumptuous to consider himself a match for God? God alone has the eminence, dignity, honor and majesty to judge. He alone can humble the proud and crush the wicked. He alone can subdue the most powerful of all God’s creation - the Leviathan, king over all the sons of pride. Then Job finally saw God. And he humbled himself. Job understood that God was to be feared because He was God, not because of what He could do for Job.  Dear Father, do I fear You for nothing? Is my love and praise for you conditional – based on my circumstances? Teach me to love You with all my heart and soul and might. May I always praise Your name. From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the LORD is to be praised. The LORD is high above all nations; His glory is above the heavens. Who is like the Lord our God? (Psalm 113).