Saturday 10 Nov 2018

November 10: Job 28:20-28

Key Verse: Job 28:28
And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.”

Devotion:
When Satan was able to pour out his evil on Job, Job continued in what he knew to be the truth. As much as Satan could hurl at him, he would not give in to the temptation to renounce God just to satisfy His human body. It is true that he could not get his head round why this should all happen to him, but his faith in God remained because of one thing – his fear of God. Whilst his friends were trying to convince him that either he or his family had done wrong in order for God to be angry with him, he knew he had not knowingly wronged God. He objected others would think him or his family had sinned against God; he objected people would even think that of his family.

We are like that in our lives too; when we think we are doing ok, we reject other people’s ideas maybe we are doing something wrong. But it’s not just a simple rejection but a response to their accusations which may go a bit far. Whether we have the right to that rejection or not does not really lie with us but with God. We can know when we do things wrong and we can learn how to spot those times, but we should never count on our own righteousness to get us through.

True wisdom can be defined as being what God possesses which allows Him to do all He does in heaven and earth. Nobody else can lay claim to the wisdom He has in order to keep the universe in motion. All that wisdom is hidden from us. We cannot hope to attain it through learning. It has taken man many years to work out what atoms are made of and we still are theorising about unseen particles – we are only scratching at the tip of the iceberg of God’s wisdom! What we have learned is man’s wisdom. But there is also spiritual wisdom which only God can reveal to us and we have a whole lot of that still to pick up too! The only way we will learn it is through respect for God’s Word and walking with Him every day.

Points to Ponder:
How much have you learned in your life?

How much wisdom has God to create even a single human cell?