Tuesday 22 May 2012

Tuesday Reading: Job 28:20-28

Key Verse: Job 28:27
27  Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

Devotion:
God had worked with Job and had given him an excellent understanding of His Awesome power and might. Job was under no delusion that God was not able to do anything He wanted to Job, but he could not understand why God had allowed this all to happen to him when Job himself had tried his best to continue doing everything according to God’s wishes. What Job was beginning to see was that even though he had a pretty good understanding of everything that God had declared to man at that stage and even though he understood much of it, there were just so many things that he would not be able to understand in his life time.

No matter how much studying we do and no matter how much we turn our lives over to finding out about God, we will always fall short of the mark and we must always bow down to our God because of His infinite and perfect knowledge! No matter how much our scientists are able to find out about everything to do with man and earth, there will always be a bit more that we can find out about it and a bit more that God has got to explain to us – God’s wisdom is infinite whereas ours does have limits!

God is the one who spoke this world into being. It is nothing to do with big bangs or fantastical coincidences that we came into being but rather because God spoke and it happened. It is because of His infinite wisdom that this planet continues to be the perfect environment for us to live in. It is because of His constant support that we can know that we have a place here to dwell until He calls us back to be with Him!

God continues to watch over this world and continues to keep it in perfect balance around the sun and the moon around us. Without Him we would descend into chaos quicker than we could probably think “jack Robinson” never mind say it! It is because of Him that we exist and not in spite of Him that we exist. It is His world that we live in and because of His infinite grace and mercy that we continue to be able to survive here on this planet that we call home. If we want to seek wisdom then we need to have the uttermost respect for God and trust in Him for our lives and not just in our own abilities. Once we have that fear of God in us then we can aim for a better future with Him as we start to live with more understanding of His will and His ways. God wants us to learn and to move forward with Him; let us therefore study to be approved workmen for Him!

Points to Ponder:
How much science do you understand?

How often do you keep God’s commandments to show Him you respect Him?