Who's Big?

Job 38: 12-13 Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn it's place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?

The Lord is addressing Job and asking him if he can do the things that God can do.

To catch a glimpse of God's greatness causes a crushing realization of our own meager existence. This sounds like a horrible, depressing thing but it isn't. It is our existence viewed in proper perspective. The point isn't that we are unworthy worms, it is that God is unthinkably, unspeakably, unfathomably great. He is all love, all power, all beauty, all justice, all things. It also clears up who is and isn't God, who knows best and who knows little. When confronted with the glory of the Lord, Job had no argument left in him. His question instantly became, "Who am I to question God?" To defend his situation no longer seemed applicable, the only thing to do was to humbly trust the Lord. It is always the only thing to do. Many of us have had experiences with His glory. My life was changed forever when He chose to reveal Himself to me. I haven't had a similar experience since but He does maintain contact through His gift of the Holy Spirit. It is up to me to follow His leading and continuously seek Him if I am to maintain conscious contact with my Lord. That makes it sound like maintaining our relationship is all up to me now, but it really isn't. He revealed Himself to me because He loves me and wants me to be part of the family. In reality I'm probably something like a toddler now; getting around on my own but never out of my loving mothers sight; trying to be a big boy but needing a lot of guidance from bigger hands. That's alright though. In a reality where the only applicable thing to do is to humbly walk with our Lord, it's good to know who's big and who's little.

Father God, grant that I might always remember how great You are, how dependant I am, and how very much love You have shown me. Amen.