Seeking the Right Question; Job 37-38, Proverbs 19

May the mumbling commence!

In chapter thirty-eight of Job, God finally begins to answer the men who are talking around one another.  This morning, I feel particularly called to focus on the passage that focuses on water.  Read from the Lord’s word in Job chapter thirty-eight:

"Who has divided a channel for the overflowing water,

Or a path for the thunderbolt, 

To cause it to rain on a land where there is no one,

A wilderness in which there is no man; 

To satisfy the desolate waste,

And cause to spring forth the growth of tender grass? 

Has the rain a father?

Or who has begotten the drops of dew? 

From whose womb comes the ice?

And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth? 

The waters harden like stone,

And the surface of the deep is frozen.” (Verses 25-30)

God speaks to Job.  God speaks in questions.  Too many times, we become obsessed with answers to the detriment of searching for the right questions to ask.

Water, for example, is powerful.  Over many decades and centuries, a river can cut a deep channel into the earth – little by little.  Water can sustain the crops that sustain us and our livestock.  If moisture or water is absent, then everything suffers.  We are a connected web of life that God created.

How much time to we spend asking about the impact of our actions on creation?  How much time do we spend asking if we can do something – rather than asking ourselves if we should?  There are many important questions to ask.  Will you seek these questions with me?  And, with these questions, we can approach the throne of our Majestic Adonai.

Our Majestic Adonai created water uniquely from all other matter.  When water freezes, it expands.  All other things contract when they freeze.  For this unique attribute of water, water is the only material where the solid can float atop the liquid.  Ice floats on water!

The surface of the deep is frozen.  This property of water allow life to continue in the many small ponds around the world when the temperature goes below water’s freezing point.  Imagine what would happen to the life below the surface if water would freeze from the bottom up – like all the rest of known matter.

Yes, let’s continue to seek the right questions more than we seek the right answers.  And let’s stand in awe of God and the wonderful universe that He created.  Let’s go to our Creator when we form our plans for the day and for our future.  Read from Proverbs chapter nineteen:

There are many plans in a man's heart,

Nevertheless the Lord's counsel – that will stand. (Verse 21)

Help us to stand, O Lord.  Help us in our search of the right questions that will lead us to Your wisdom.

Enough mumbling for now…

Peace Out