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Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Job 38:1-18
"That the Almighty would answer me", Job had cried (Job 31:35; compare what Eliphaz said to him in Job 5:1). Well, this God whom he believed to be deaf and inaccessible, grants his wish, but not in the way Job thought He would. For instead of answering his questions, the LORD in His turn is to ask him a whole series of questions. We often see the Lord Jesus doing the same with the people who spoke to Him (e.g. Luke 10:25-26; Luke 20:2-4; Luke 20:21-24).
Because of the high opinion which he had of himself (Job 31:37), Job needed to be humbled and this is what God is going to bring about by His questions — to make him realise his smallness and his complete ignorance. The scientist, in making objective observations may be brought to the same result; this is why the greatest scientists are often the most modest.
"When man listens, God speaks," someone has said. And God is patient. He has allowed Job and his friends all the time they needed to express their false ideas; then He instructed Elihu to refute them. Finally silence reigns; now God can speak and certainly He will have the last word. We must learn to be quiet sometimes, to silence our restless spirits, so that God can make us hear His voice.
