“Who Can Stand…?”
“Can you draw out Leviathan with a
fishhook, or press down its tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in its nose,
or pierce its jaw with a hook? Will it make many supplications to you? Will it
speak soft words to you? Will it make a covenant with you to be taken as your
servant forever? Will you play with it as with a bird, or will you put it on
leash for your girls? Will traders bargain over it? Will they divide it up
among the merchants? Can you fill its skin with harpoons, or its head with
fishing spears? Lay hands on it; think of the battle; you will not do it again!
Any hope of capturing it will be disappointed; were not even the gods
overwhelmed at the sight of it? No one is so fierce as to dare to stir it up.
Who can stand before it? Who can confront it and be safe? –
under the whole heaven, who?”
Have you ever watched the animals God
has created? Have you ever gone underwater and realized there is a whole other
world below the sea, just as there is above the sea? Have you looked in the
heavens at night and wondered if there is life on other planets, and if so how
many trillions of stars and planets there are? Did you ever think that just one
God created all of that, and that you are a part of His creation? Did you ever
think that He knows you by name?
are everywhere.
All creation
sings God’s praise.
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