“Does rain have a father?” Job 38:28a
/Poor Job… the questions only got tougher. God continued heaping loads of unanswerable queries to consider:
“Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm, to water a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it, to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?” (vv. 25 – 27)
“Does rain have a father?” (v.28a)
“Who fathers the drops of dew?” (v.28b)
“From whose womb comes the ice?” (v.29a)
“Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?” (v.29b)
God is slowly providing Job a much larger picture… a broader perspective on how creation is created and maintained. The interrogation was showing Job that all of life was not about him… even his own life. Though man exalts his/her own significance or value in this world, it is not about you… and it certainly is not about me.
The sciences have developed as man’s quest to understand the systems of creation and man’s role in it. Even yet, mankind is not motivated enough to cease the production of certain synthesized materials which take generations to decompose. Humanity has not learned, even after the current pandemic, that the atmosphere really does recover if we stop polluting it with the noxious gases emitted from the production of those synthesized materials.
If nature has a father, and we all know it does, wouldn’t the father design it in such a way as to provide mankind with everything necessary for life and sustenance? In fact, God even provides for the unseen life in the hostile environments of the deserts and polar extremes. If The Father cares that much for grass, imagine how much greater He cares for you. That’s the whole point of today’s passage.
God has always had a plan. Even before the dawn of creation, God had a plan… and it included you… and me. It’s hard to fathom, isn’t it? How is God able to do such marvelous things? Because He is God… and we are not. It’s not about us, it’s all about Him and the beauty of His wisdom and power.
So, where do we fit in to it all? First, we fit in to God’s plan by recognizing it all began with Him, and it is all held together by Him, and it is all maintained by Him. Second, Jesus directed humanity to the Great Commandment: “Love the Lord, your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind…” (Luke 10:27). In that way, we demonstrate our resolve in understanding that it IS all about Him.
Have a blessed day…