Job 41 is God’s final words to Job and He uses the discussion around the sea beast Leviathan to make His point. This is one hairy mean beast. It is obviously something to be feared and certainly untamable by man. What better way to illustrate to Job and us the reality of our life in this universe. God asks Job all kinds of questions about harpoons and arrows and lassos, they are merely a joke to the sea beast. Nothing man can do will ever capture or even slow down this creature. “Even angels run for cover when he surfaces” – now that is one mean creature. God asks this question: “If you can’t hold your own against him….how do you expect to stand up to me”? The reality is that even the biggest baddest meanest thing in the universe still holds no candle to the power of God. God created all, controls all, knows all, is all. He is the great I AM. God alone is in charge.
He makes that very clear this way: “I’m in charge of all this–I run this universe”! It doesn’t get much clearer than that does it. God is in charge. We sometimes wonder – at least I do. Where is God? If He is in charge why does this or that happen? But scripture is clear. He is in charge. He knows what is happening. He has a plan. We can’t see it from our little piece of the picture, but there is a Master plan that is clear and will happen. It reminds me of the Louie Giglio sermon on the vastness of the universe and God. We are but a spec, a small dot that is not even visible in the picture of our universe. We really don’t amount to a hill of beans when we compare our short and simple life to God’s creation and eternity. That can make us sort of insignificant can’t it? But the other side of the coin is that this same God who created the heavens and the earth also knows you and me individually and personally. He knows every hair on our head. He knows every part of our life, each second since we were conceived. He knows us intimately. And He loved us enough, you and me as individual people in His universe, to send His only Son to the cross for your sin and mine. Not some blanket get out of hell free card. A very individual sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross to cover your selfishness, your sin, so you could be given the opportunity through grace to spend eternity with the creator of the universe. God loved us that much. The ball is in our court now. Will you make your spec on God’s eternal plan one that lasts forever with Him? What will you do with Jesus?
