Mon.’s Devo - Elihu’s Last Words

Read Job 36:15-37 Elihu continues and we pick up with his speech about God’s ways. He explains that God listens and helps the poor. God would have delivered Job if he had been in their situation, but instead, Job fell in with the punishment of the wicked. He warns Job of the wrath of God. Elihu thinks that Job has remained in his state of pain and suffering because he has refused to humble himself and accept God’s punishment. Who can contend with God who is the Teacher, the Great I Am, all-powerful, and omnipotent? He explains the wisdom of how rain is formed. Who could have come up with that except God? Then he muses about lightning and thunder. God orchestrates heaven. Thunder is God speaking things we can’t comprehend. (That reminds me of when God thundered on Mt. Sinai and some people heard it as his voice speaking the Ten Commandments and other heard it as thunder.) God controls the animals, the wind, and the seasons. He uses nature to deal with man. He brings different weather to either discipline man or his land, or show his mercy. Elihu asks Job is he knows when God created the earth, or does he understand why God places each cloud where he does. Was Job with God when he created the sky? Does Job alone know how to talk to God? God is so much higher than men in his wisdom and everything he does. Men fear God, and those who don’t God doesn’t respect. Lord, you do have everything orchestrated under your control. That is the comfort we find when we look at how evil the world has become. Keep us as your light shining in the dark.