Our minds simply can’t wrap our thoughts around the size and scale of the recent storms we’ve witnessed, whether they‘re forest fires in California, tornadoes across the Midwest, or the hurricanes that percolate in the overly-warm waters of the Gulf. Perhaps we could consider these natural disasters as the type of calamity Job faced. They are mysteries. They happen and are not aimed toward the righteous or the damned. They are notoriously impersonal and yet we are trapped in how personal our disasters are experienced as if they’ve been directed to us. They just happen and we’re left wondering what they mean.
To this point, the story of Job has been like an old-time silent movie. There’s action and story and character development; there’s betrayal and disappointment and the suspense of Job’s faithful grasp on God’s providence. All of this in silence until suddenly the slumbering God awakens and utters in perfect poetry what the Divine has held silent to this point. God speaks! At long last, the Divine breaks the painful silence.
Last time, Job unloaded on God with defiant anger about the injustice guiding the sequence of bad luck. This week, God responds. See you Sunday as we peel back more from the amazing, ancient story of Job!
Pastor Keith Herron preaching
