Job 38-42

Here’s the thing. When we come face to face with God, when we take a good look, a sincere look at who He is – Creator God – we will have the same response as Job had:

I had heard reports about you, but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I reject my words and am sorry for them. I am dust and ashes. (42:5-6)

I hope you’ll read these chapters today as though God was talking to you. Get ready to be humbled. Can you honestly stand next to God and dare to tout your own accomplishments? Can you declare your goodness, or intellect, or righteousness equal to His?

Who do you think you are? The correct answer is dust and ashes.

Then take a good look at Creator God, all powerful, all knowing, righteous and holy, and know He sees you. He loves you. He gave His life to save yours.

If you’ve never humbled yourself and accepted the grace of God through Jesus’ blood, do it today. Get to know Him through His Word, and receive what He died to give you.

If you are already His child by way of the cross, let this challenge you to take a good look at Him today. Stop and consider the truth of who He is. Check your heart against His. Is there is a hint of pride, or self-satisfaction, or a suggestion of a skewed opinion of Him shaped by the world? Then repent immediately. Don’t let Satan get a foothold.

When you take an honest look at God, you will be humbled. You will feel like dust and ashes in comparison. As you should. The question is not so much, “who do you think you are?” as it is “who does God think you are?

According to Scripture He thinks you are worth dying for. That lump of dust and ashes that is you, is precious to Him, someone He wants a relationship with. Can you grasp the wonder of that truth?

“Who do you think you are?” I pray you can answer that with, “A child of God, a sinner saved by grace!”