God Speaks in the Storm

For thirty-five chapters in the book of Job, Job cries out; his three friends speculate; and God … He remains silent. The LORD doesn’t speak a single word. In Job 38:1, however, the hidden God becomes the revealed God and what He reveals is powerful. “Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm.” Job does not receive an explanation from God as to the why, when, or what of his suffering; rather, he/we receive a revelation of God – who our ever-orchestrating God is. Through what will become a string of 70 questions from God to Job, the LORD emphasizes His incomprehensible greatness in all things. Through life’s storms, God leads Job and us from an attitude of self-pity and self-assertion in our trials to a place of self-surrender, falling before God in reverence, awe, and humility. We too no longer press God for an explanation, but simply bask in His unfathomable revelation – especially in and through Christ.