Back to Job tonight…
Job 25 (NIV)
1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:2“Dominion and awe belong to God;
he establishes order in the heights of heaven.3Can his forces be numbered?
Upon whom does his light not rise?4How then can a man be righteous before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?5If even the moon is not bright
and the stars are not pure in his eyes,6how much less man, who is but a maggot —
a son of man, who is only a worm!”
While hardly the encouragement Job needed, Bildad the Shuhite speaks truth about who men are as compared to God. He’s almighty, in control of the entire universe… we’re barely able to get through a single day without everything spinning out of control. He’s omniscient, knowing all… the limitations of our knowledge are often painfully clear. He’s eternal and unchanging… our earthly lives are painfully short, with the only constant being change. He’s perfect and sinless… we’re plagued by our imperfections and sinful rebellion.
Why God would want anything to do with us is beyond me.
But He does.
In fact, He desperately loves us and wants us to love Him. So much so that He provided a way for us to be made righteous and pure, in spite of cost to which we can’t begin to relate… by pouring our the blood of His son as payment for our sin.
A debt we can’t pay, paid in full by the grace of God, at the simple cost to us of childlike faith and trust in Jesus.
God is good indeed.
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