OUR LORD GOD ALMIGHTY IS SO FAR ABOVE US! Then Job answered the LORD and said:  “Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.  I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.” —Job 40:3-4 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. —Job 41:11 Then Job answered the LORD and said: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.  ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not…

LORD I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:  “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?” —Job 38:1-2 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. —Psalm 145:3 The LORD is faithful in all his words and kind in all his works. —Psalm 145:13 The LORD is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works. —Psalm 145:17             Be careful that you do not think you know better than our Lord God Almighty!  Job was trying to figure out why this was happening to him and why God was against him,…

THE SELF-EXISTENT ONE If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?  If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand? —Job 35:6-7             God is awesomely awesome!  Who can comprehend Him?  He is infinitely greater than we are.  Men have needs in order to survive.  God does not need anything.  Men need others for the human race to go on.  God needs nothing and continues forever!             When you and I sin it does not change His character at all.  He grieves over our sin (Ephesians 4:30), but…

MY BREATH IS IN HIS HANDS If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust. —Job 34:14-15             The power of God is inconceivable.  Man thinks he knows so much, but in comparison to God we know nothing.  At any time He could gather His spirit and His breath and that would be the end of every living thing on the planet.  Think about that.  In an instant the planet would be completely lifeless if that was God’s desire.  Earth would become a dusty planet.             “Man is like a breath;…

HE HAS NOT ABANDONED YOU! Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me, when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent, —Job 29:2-4 You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me. —Job 30:21             When we go through the midst of deep trials our thinking may be all over the place as we try to figure out why this is happening.  We try to make sense out of why difficulty is happening to…

FEAR THE LORD… IS TO HATE EVIL!  And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’ —Job 28:28 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. —Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate —Proverbs 8:13             Do you and I have a proper perspective on Who our Lord God Almighty is?  If so, that is wisdom.  Wisdom is the proper application of knowledge and will “turn away from evil.”  Fools hate wisdom.  They…

TRUST! Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?  They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’ —Job 21:7, 14-15             Do we look at our lives sometimes and wonder why the wicked are prospering when they want nothing to do with God?  We think, “Why am I having difficultly Lord?  I am following You.  Why am I cut down with health issues in the flower of my age when the wicked live to be old.  Why do I…

GOD’S CREATION! For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.  I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.  My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.  Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. —Psalm 139:13-16 Let’s contrast what our Lord says about a child in the womb and what the world says.  Remember, the world system is headed…

GOD IS IN CONTROL! In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind. —Job 12:10  He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away. —Job 12:23             Think about this— every living thing and the very breath of all mankind is in His hand.  Yes, He is in control of all things.  Whether it is an individual cell, person, animal or plant— He knows all about it and He is in control of it.  Whether it is one nation of people or all the nations of this world— He knows all about them and He is in…

EVER ASK “WHY?” Why did you bring me out from the womb? —Job 10:18 Job had a good understanding that he was a person in the womb and that it was Almighty God that brought him “out from the womb.”  This is such a basic understanding.  But today as down through the ages basic understandings are not understood.  Sin has so skewed people’s thinking that they “call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter” (Isaiah 5:20).  These people need to “come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken…