JOB 42

Job 42:3

Who is this that hides councel without knowledge?

Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,

things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

reflection: It has been something to finally come to the end of Job. I wasn’t sure I was going to make it but I just kept plugging along. It will seem odd not to be working on Job. I sat on the last two chapters for a long time. 41 because the imagery was so rich, and 42 because it was the end.  I decided on 42:3 because it reminded me of a show about astronomy that I had seen years ago. A woman was describing a galaxy that had been discovered.    As she talked about the galaxy and showed images she pointed out one that seemed so much like a figure. Her face went through a marvelous transformation as she spoke. She said she didn’t believe in God but… that image…. she smiled and shook her head a bit.     It have given her pause.

“things too wonderful for me, which I did not know”

Prayer: May I be open to those things which I do not know.

Job 41

Verse Job 41:27

He counts iron as straw,

and bronze as rotten wood.

reflection: Job 41 describes a leviathan. The imagery creates  a nightmarish being that can not be overcome. “He laughs at the sound of javalins”. The epitome of evil. This chapter is so rich with imagery. The storytellers from the beginning of time to now, could not describe the hardness of evil more clearly.

It would seem as though only unselfish, purified good could meet and overcome evil

Reminds me of Mai Lai, Vietnam. American soldiers who realized in a horrifying  moment that the evil enemy was their own kind. Soldiers who went against everything that they had been taught in order to do that which was most right. Who saved innocent people.

Prayer: I hope I will be able to face evil and not be fooled by the shape it may take. I hope if asked by life that I will have the strength to do that which is most right.