Have You An Arm Like God?
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Job 40:9,24 41:1,4,10 The Context: Job was a Godly man who God allowed Satan to test his faithfulness with unbearable suffering. Job never turned against God, but he certainly questioned God’s love and care of him and his family. His questions were serious doubts about God’s Divine character. In response, God began to ask Job some questions about the difference between God and man. God used Behemoth and Leviathan, as examples of giant land and sea creatures that were certainly uncontrollable and untamable by man.
God asks us: Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
Job 40:24 of Behemoth, Can one take him by his eyes, or pierce his nose with a snare?
41:1 Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook…?
41:4 Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?
41:10,11 Who then is he who can stand before me? Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
JNE: Who do I think I am to actually challenge God. If God is GOD (and Job and I believe He is) He alone has the wisdom and power to lead the path of my life. As powerful and wise as I might think I am, I in NO WAY can claim to be equal to GOD our Creator. GOD is the Only One You and I, with Job, can trust with every detail, good and bad, of our lives.
Job 40:9,24 41:1,4,10 The Context: Job was a Godly man who God allowed Satan to test his faithfulness with unbearable suffering. Job never turned against God, but he certainly questioned God’s love and care of him and his family. His questions were serious doubts about God’s Divine character. In response, God began to ask Job some questions about the difference between God and man. God used Behemoth and Leviathan, as examples of giant land and sea creatures that were certainly uncontrollable and untamable by man.
God asks us: Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
Job 40:24 of Behemoth, Can one take him by his eyes, or pierce his nose with a snare?
41:1 Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook…?
41:4 Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?
41:10,11 Who then is he who can stand before me? Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
JNE: Who do I think I am to actually challenge God. If God is GOD (and Job and I believe He is) He alone has the wisdom and power to lead the path of my life. As powerful and wise as I might think I am, I in NO WAY can claim to be equal to GOD our Creator. GOD is the Only One You and I, with Job, can trust with every detail, good and bad, of our lives.