The Devotional
Comment:
Majesty, unbeknown to most of us who lift up a voice of
praise to God is the truth that we are actually worshipping MAJESTY. We say that
we know that God is Majestic, yet I say most of us only know the word and not The
God who is the Great I AM. My heart is sad in that in being saved as it is,
falls short of understanding the presence and vital need of God for Creation to
exist. Under the curse Creation (mankind) stands on the precipice of falling
into the abyss, yet the LORD God by His Grace has secured us by His Power and
Majesty in order that we might see and believe the Grace of God. As I have said
before “all of Creation knows this Truth, but mankind has choose to reject it. Isaiah
55:12 and Romans 8:18-27 explains that Creation and those of us who are saved
groan for His Majesty to come, but even in this without the HELP of the Holy
Spirit we the saved children of God fall short in our human weaknesses to fully
understand.
Challenge:
Job 40
As the LORD opens
the door for Job to speak the LORD says; “Job, will you continue to contend
with Me to correct Me? Go ahead Job answer Me! The Job replied “I am unworthy –
how can I reply to You? Yes I may have something to say, but I need to place my
hand over my mouth and keep the words inside. I spoke once LORD, there was no
answer, I spoke again, but now I am silent since I am facing MAJESTY. This is
important since many of us rattle on to God even when He intends to answer, our
mouth will seek to override His grace.
Even here we see
that Job intends to be silent but is not capable of total silence so the LORD
God gets Job’s attention by confronting Job with a “whirlwind” IN YOU FACE JOB,
listen to Me, brace yourself like a man; I will question you and you will
answer Me.” O if we would only understand that we do not have the answers, we
only have questions and that most of these miss the mark. Mostly we do the very
thing we see here with the conversation of God and Job.
“WOULD YOU
DISCREDIT MY JUSTICE? WOULD YOU CONDEMN ME TO JUSTIFY YOURSELF JOB?” We could
put our name there, could we not since we have done this so many times in the
past. We are always left speechless when God questions our motives. “Job, do
you have an arm like Me, can your voice thunder like Mine, can you put on a
Majestic Robe of Honor”. The answer is of course is that Job can do none of
these things in the majestic power of God and neither can you and I.
I will need to
stop here this morning, but these thoughts are important for each and every one
of us. God is not angry with Job, nor is He angry with you or me. He is however
angry with Satan who has placed a stumbling block between God’s Creation and
God called the CURSE, Genesis 3. In many ways the events of Job life describe
the events of the Spiritual battle going on all around us. The counterfeit kingdom
fighting to overcome the KINGDOM of Our God and Creator will not have victory!
Man needs only to brace himself like a man and believe God – Faith is the
VICTORY that overcomes the counterfeit world we live in.
We will look again
into this wonderful book on Tuesday May 26 as our church will be having a
conference over the Memorial Day Weekend and I will be looking into the Word
and Majesty of the LORD,
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