When I learned to hate Sin....is when God gives me eyes to see Sin not as a Rule,
but a cause of pain and suffering to others myself and most importantly to God.
Very profound
Speaking of Job, I'm learning to be humble. I am subjected to GOD and HIS law. After all, HE is the ONE that stacks the deck.
2 Chronicles 7:14
if My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, who have wrought His judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness; it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.
Psalm 149:4:
For the LORD taketh pleasure in His people; He will beautify the meek with salvation.
But more than just reading verses and knowing that there are benefits to humility, I have realised that I cannot (and probably shouldn't even attempt to) put myself in the same wavelength as the one who can answer these questions:
Job 38
4 Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
12 Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place,
17 Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.
19 What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?
21 Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!
31 Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God's dominion over the earth?
36 Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind?
39 Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions
40 when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket?
41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
Job 39
26 Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom and spread his wings toward the south?
27 Does the eagle soar at your command and build his nest on high?
Job 40
8 Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?
9 Do you have an arm like God's, and can your voice thunder like his?
Job 41
11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
All Glory to GOD
kweli