“The Lord answered Job…”where were
you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding
who determined its measurements – surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? …Or who
shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, when I made clods
its garment and think darkness its swaddling band and prescribed limits for it
and set bars and doors…Have you commanded the morning since your days began,
and caused the dawn to know its place.”
When I read this passage from Job I
cannot help but marvel and be in awe of creation and in the complex and
beautiful design that the Lord made. The Lord asks Job if he laid the
foundations of the earth, of course Job did not, but this only begins to show
the power and the glory of the Lord. Job need not think that the Lord has
forgotten him because the Lord was faithful in the smallest and largest details
of the earth. We talked about the mysteries of creation in class and this only
furthers the idea that there are mysteries of creation that have been explained
to us in scripture and others that we cannot understand or fathom.
This passage is such a clear
indicator of the sovereign hand that the Lord has on all the earth. We don’t
often stop and think about how the ocean and its waves have come just up to
land and no further for the last 100s of years. We don’t think about every new
morning and how the Lord has control over each of these mornings as he declares
in Job
These are the little bits and pieces
of creation that we take for granted and that we don’t typically acknowledge on
a day to day basis. I have enjoyed going over these details and thinking more
in depth about nature and ecology through this course
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