Job 40:23-24
Indeed the river may rage, yet he is not disturbed; he is
confident, though the Jordan gushes into his mouth, though he takes it in his
eyes, or one pierces his nose with a snare.
In these verses, the whole of the universe
is symbolized, and whatever the universe it, it is not tame…. And yet in the
beginning, God intended man to control it; the reason he cannot is because he
twisted God’s order; instead of recognizing God’s dominion over himself, man
became his own god, and by doing so, lost control of everything else….
[What God intended is] mirrored in Jesus
Christ -- a perfect oneness between God and man; there is no gap… In the
meantime, there is a gap, and the universe is wild, not tame. Every type of
superstition pretends it can rule the universe; the scientific quack proclaims
he can control the weather, that he has occult powers, and can take the
untamable universe and tame it. God says it cannot be done.
Excerpts from Oswald Chambers
Daily Devotional Bible, Reading 236 (8/24)
From Baffled to Fight Better
This photograph is by Liz Burnell.
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