Day 150

Mar 30: Job 31-42
Reading the end of Job is so humbling because God is so sovereign, powerful, and loving. Throughout the book, Job is questioning God and wondering why he's being inflicted with all this turmoil when he has been blameless in his ways. When God finally answers him, He lays the smack down on Job and Job becomes speechless, realizing how sinful he really is before God. Some of the first lines in God's response goes like this:
vs 4: "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? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone - while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?"
God goes on with things of that nature for two chapters and I can imagine Job afterwards, completely dumbfounded and humbled by God's amazing power. What can you possibly respond to that with?
We will never in our human minds be able to understand the true sovereignty of God, but do we spend enough time thinking about Him in that sense? It's easy to say God's omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and whatnot, but when you actually think about what that means in more literal terms, it becomes a little more real in your life. When God reveals Himself to us, when we really start to see who God is, we see who we are as well. We see how sinful we are and how little we are compared to Him and as a result, we want to praise and worship Him more.
The best part of the book of Job isn't how God owns Job and shows him how powerful He is, but how amazing and loving He is afterwards. Job had so much before Satan took away his family and health, but after everything, God gives him double what he had to start. There's no better week than this week to think about how sovereign and loving God is; how good is God in your life?