Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The Weather

Job 37:5 "God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend." ESV


 

Elihu is a meteorologist. He spends a great deal of time talking about snow and ice and rain and thunder and lightning. The point…God controls it all. It all starts with God. He causes the rain to fall. He causes the snow to come. He even mentions that God gives weather for three purposes: For correction or to feed His land or because He loves us. (v 13) I don't think that I have ever thought of the weather like that before…that it is from the very hand of God and He has a specific purpose in bringing rain and wind and snow and ice and tornados and hurricanes and typhoons.


 

In fact, Elihu says that when God speaks He thunders. "Keep listening to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth." (v2) and "After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice" (v4) And now this: "God thunders wondrously with His voice". I know that Elihu may have been looking at this simplistically. He could not explain thunder so he said it was the voice of God. Or, on the flip side, maybe we think of it too simplistically. Maybe thunder is from the voice of God and we just don't get it. Sure there is a scientific explanation for thunder, but we also have to consider that all of creation is crying out with God's voice. It is all shouting out His existence. (Rom. 1) Maybe the next time I hear thunder I should consider that God is speaking…I should shut up and listen.


 

Then this: He does great things that we cannot comprehend. Why? Because He is God. He is awesome. He controls it all…and I have a finite, tiny brain. My understanding is limited. "Oh the depth of the riches of both the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are His judgment and unfathomable His ways." "Now to Him who can do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or think." This is God. He is at work and His work is beyond us. When He works we can't explain it. When He moves we can't understand it. But He does. And He is still at work today.


 

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