“Pay attention to this, Job. Stop and consider the wonderful miracles of God! Do you know how God controls the storm and causes the lightning to flash from his clouds? Do you understand how he moves the clouds with wonderful perfection and skill? When you are sweltering in your clothes and the south wind dies down and everything is still, he makes the skies reflect the heat like a bronze mirror. Can you do that? Job 37:14-18
Then Jesus got into the boat and started across the lake with his disciples. Suddenly, a fierce storm struck the lake, with waves breaking into the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him up, shouting, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” Jesus responded, “Why are you afraid? You have so little faith!” Then he got up and rebuked the wind and waves, and suddenly there was a great calm. The disciples were amazed. “Who is this man?” they asked. “Even the winds and waves obey him!” Matthew 8:23-27
The haunting
questions here have a focal point on storms, one of the earth’s more
awe-inspiring and powerful realities:
Do you know how God does that with the lightning, controlling the clouds?
Can YOU do that?
And the disciples watching the live feed of
Jesus doing just that ask:
Who is this man?
Scripture does
not go wanting when it comes to the connection between the creation and Creator;
that connection is the all-powerful hand of Jesus Christ. When Jesus was trying to straighten-out the
skewed thinking of some Bible scholars among the leaders of Israel, He simply
uncluttered the issue; He told them:
“You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me! John 5:39
Paying
attention to the questions within your heart, mind, and soul, about where you
come from, who you really are, and, therefore, where this is all going – where you’re
going to wind-up, is more often on the front-burner during times of crisis. Frankly, considering this pandemic, with all
its quarantine, game-changing social distancing, and attention to the case and
death tolls…if you are NOT thinking more about your soul and the reality
of mortality, I’d be worried about your connection with reality!
And these two
passages, one from the oldest text in Scripture (Job), and the other God’s veritable
defining answer to life’s basic need, unveil what we need to know about life’s basic
questions, those with which we wrestle; namely,
·
Who made me
and everything I see?
·
What am I
supposed to do?
·
Where will I
wind up?
·
Who will
guide me?
So, Job, Russell,
anyone…pay attention…the answer is Jesus.
And He loves you.
For You Today
It’s okay to
place your faith and trust in God, His Son, and His Holy Spirit; it was God who
created it all, controls it all, and offers it all to us in His Son. Don’t be afraid of the waves on today’s seas
of storm; you’ve got the answers to the questions…you KNOW
who this man is!
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Unless noted, Scripture quoted from The New Living Translation©
For other posts on Job 37 see The Wisdom of Elihu for
Matthew 8:23-27 see Hanging-In
There; or Just Hanging?
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