Sat.’s Devo - God Answers

Read: Job 39-40:5
How would you like God to ask you questions about creation? I can’t imagine how humiliated and humbled Job must have felt. God gives us insights into nature that are mind-blowing. I love the way God gives life to his creation. He puts child-proof gates so the sea can’t escape its shore. He gives light and darkness a home. He stores up snow and hail as weapons for war and times of trouble. He lays out a path for the lightning to strike. Nothing is random with God. He births the dew and the frost in the morning and fathers the rain. He leads the stars across the sky like a mother bear leading her cubs. In the KJV in verse 32 it gives the name Mazzaroth which means the Zodiak. We always have a negative connotation of the Zodiak thinking it is New Age but it is Bible. To plan your future by it is New Age but it is Bible. God has laws for the universe because it is alive. He has different laws for us.
God calls the clouds: water jars and tilts them when the earth needs the water. God stalks the prey for the lion to eat. This gives a whole new meaning to the words of Paul to the Romans. He was explaining to them about God in Acts 17:28 and he said, “For in him we live, and move, and have our being…for we are his offspring.” Just like God stalks through the lion, he moves through us.
God takes Job to his heavenly zoo showing him the majesty of his creatures which all have specific lessons to teach us. Then the Lord asked Job if he still wanted to argue with him. Job put his hand over his mouth and said, No.
I know that there are times when we need to contend with God. Job got an encounter with the Lord he would have never gotten had he not contended with him. Jacob would never have gotten his name changed to Israel if he had not wrestled with God. The lady with the issue of blood would have remained unclean if she had not have reached out and touched the most clean vessel on earth. There are times to contend with God and he will answer. God answered Job and showed him awesome secrets of the universe that we now have. So, it is necessary to stand for what we believe and wait for God to answer.
Lord, help us to know when to contend with you and when to let go.