“Where Were You

When I Laid The Earth’s Foundation?”

Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?

Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.

“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?

“Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’?

“Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it? The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment. The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.

“Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness? Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

Job 38:1-18

Compared to the One who laid Earth’s foundations, who commands morning to appear and night to end, who stocks the storehouses of the snow and directs the stars, we are small. There is only the Ruler of the waves, and it is not good to us.

We should never begin to feel too clever or proud about ourselves. Walk to the beach and tell the tide to half or try commanding the sun to step aside. We’ll soon remember who is really supreme and thank Him for ruling our lives.

God is great, we are small, and that is good.

Our Daily Bread – March 7, 2017