For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him,
that we should come to trial together.
Job 9:32
You cannot charge God with any wrong. He is holy and perfect, sovereign and all powerful. And we are fallen, imperfect, broken sinners who suffer in a broken and fallen world. Job knew this and did not resist it. He knew that only God is God. And Job had no power, no priviliges, no joy unless God was its source. He knew this before his great suffering. He affirmed it in his suffering.
The thing about God that we may struggle through the most in hard times is this very observation that God is not a man. He doesn’t fit into human terms and conditions. He cannot be evaluated by human systems. He cannot ever be wrong. He cannot be measured in our ways. Our finite minds are limited when it comes to comprehending Him. All we know of Him, He has revealed to us and we must accept it by faith. Only God is God.
What Job knew in ancient trial is still true today. God is in control. He is God and we are not. And submission by faith to His ways and His will are the best ways for us to be human. The good news is that He has sent His Son to save us from it all. God Himself suffered unimagineable under human injustice, carrying all human sin, so that we might know the love of God in Christ. He may be hard to understand, but God is loving and accessible through Jesus and in Jesus we see God and know Him. And that erases all the vast distance between a holy God and sinful humanity.
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