Tues.’s Devo - God Speaks!

Read Job 38:1-23 This is when I want to stand up and clap, clap, clap!!! Finally, God speaks. We have had enough of man’s opinions to last a life time. God speaks out of the whirlwind because he is angry. He wants to know who has given knowledge a bad name. They better brace themselves because God is going to have his say. He wants to know who was with him when he laid the foundation stone or the axis in which the earth would spin and decided how large it would be. When he did the stars sang and all heaven shouted for joy. When God poured down the water for the seas, who stopped them and put the shores. Who put the clouds in the sky and prepared a storehouse to hold the rain. (This was released during the flood.) God wrote the laws of day and night and as clay conforms to the seal, so the earth has conformed to God’s seal with all its land forms. One day God will fold up this earth as a garment and shake the evil out of it just as Jesus’ garment was found folded in the tomb. God asks these men if they had seen the floor of the ocean or been under the earth to see the place of the dead. All of this is open to God’s eyes. Does anyone understand light and darkness? How about snow, and how every snowflake is different? Where is snow and hail stored up? God says that he stores up hail and snow to use in times of trouble, battle and war. I wonder if God isn’t referring to heavenly wars. Snow in the scriptures is a picture of holiness and redemption….“though our sins be as crimson, they will be white as snow.” I also know that adversity is used as a refining tool. Lord, we take so much of what you have created for granted. Help us to reflect on your creation and learn your mysteries you have hidden in it.