The Devotional - 52

The Devotional

Comment:

Most of us have a pet, either a dog or cat, or maybe a bird. Pets are very good for people and people likewise can be very good for the pet. I would like to say something about the days in which we live wherein it is a crime to discipline your pet, but it is not a crime to kill a rat! I will save that for another day in the future should the LORD tarry His return. We have one dog, we had two, but a couple of months ago our female Greyhound developed cancer and had to be put down, our male dog is a Welsh Corgi, he is old and without medication has a lot of trouble walking. Here is the rub! We have had him since he was a puppy, I understand about 5% of what he tries to tell me daily and likewise, he understands about 5% of what I try to tell him. The LORD God who created us both, totally understands the both of us, and by the way He understands you too! Such Wisdom is far too wonderful for our emotional makeup. In seeking to understand we find ourselves overwhelmed with awe (Fear of God). Thus the Books of Job, Ecclesiastes, Psalms, Proverbs (all of the poetry of the Holy Bible) assist you and me to KNOW this truth; “For God so loves the world that He gave… (John 3:16)”.

Challenge: Job 39

Moving along in this chapter of Job, I am continually awed as I hope you are as well at the Wisdom of God. Job’s questions to God in the earlier sections of Job are being answered by God, yet not in the way Job expects and certainly not in the way Job’s friends believe. God in His discourse will not say anything about Job’s suffering or the discourses of Job’s friends or how and why his suffering came about. Do you not find that in most of our prayer (communication) with God that His answers are always beyond what we ask or think? The apostle Paul tells us why in Ephesians 3:17-21 (so that Christ can dwell in our hearts through faith).

“Job, do you give the horse its strength or cloth his neck with a flowing mane?” Do you Job, make the horse leap like a locust or strike terror in the ear of those who hear his proud snorting?” “Job, why does the horse paw the ground fiercely and rejoice in his strength and charge into the battle?” “Job, I gave the horse his wisdom to laugh at fear, he is afraid of nothing and he does not run from the sword”. (Let me ask this question), “Do these statements of God to Job give you goosebumps?” I have goosebumps, who would think that God in His Wisdom would place in the heart of His animals the excitement to charge at the sound of the trumpet?”

The man says, I have trained my horse well, true while there is training involved and necessary, it is the LORD God who has given the animal the instinctive way and scent to know the battle from the battle cry and the ability to carry its rider to the fray. Also as the LORD God continues questioning Job, “Job have you thought about the hawk or the eagle?” Maybe Job has thought about these birds (Job 9:26). Or Job, does the hawk fly by your wisdom the go south?” These birds of prey Job are My Creation, they can see from afar their food and the food for their young. Where ever you find the slain, you will find the eagle, God has purpose and a plan – Revelation 19:17-18.