Job 38:1-21
Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside? Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings? Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!
God breaks in just when Elihu has finished his list of excellent reasons why Job cannot expect an answer! God is almighty, far and away above humanity. But he is also near. He hears, and he cares. Job had imagined himself putting his case to God, asking his questions. But imagination is not reality. It is God, not Jo, who asks the question of searching questions Job finds his opinion of himself shrinking, his concept of God expanding. His mental image of God had been altogether too small. The God who confronts him is God on a different scale altogether.
Why?
Our idea about God is always too narrow and full of our narrow concept. Job be questioned by the Lord. Shows the great and almighty of God's work.
How can we have the position to question the Lord, we are little, but for God's grace, we may stand before God.
Who can explain the nature of this world, and so many mysterious matters? None. Even science is part of God's work and wisdom,
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這無知的人可能是指約伯,和其他人。
v1-3 開場白: 自以為是的言語,隱藏神的心意,蒙蔽自己的心眼。
如果這些事你都不知道,怎麼能明白了
v4-7 立大地根基是誰按放的?不僅知道,連想都沒有想過。約伯認為神任意而為。
v12-16 為海洋立界限,我們認為理所當然,這是神工作。約伯認為神在防著他,其實是在保護我們。約伯認為神把世界交給惡人,晨光是神所賜的
V16-18 深海的深度,深淵誰去過?約伯認為陰間可以躲避神,陰間去過嗎?
V19-21 神定下光明黑暗,回應約伯從來沒有出生過。神沒有責備約伯,只是問他。我們常常以自然神律來解釋世界。聖經的觀點是神不僅創造,並且繼續在保守,讓世界不致紊亂。
神的工作,不僅我們不明白而且我們從來沒有想過。使萬事萬物成長,更何況神所愛的人。
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How?
Sing Joy to the Lord, praise his Holy name forever!
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