Faithful Friday Blog 18 07 2025

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Friday 18/07/2025

Job 41
The young man is correct that God offers a new start after repentance; but that isn’t what is needed in Job’s situation. (The Lectionary spares us from the rest of this young man’s speech, which ends when a storm approaches, which becomes the vehicle for the voice of the Lord). The Lord now engages with Job (not with the ‘friends’). With a series of questions the Lord shows what a foolish notion we have when we think we can argue our case before him. Some people still think of God as just a little bit bigger than us, a little bit older than us, a little bit wiser than us. These chapters squash that image. Job very wisely claps his hand over his mouth (40:4), but the questions keep on coming to keep on asking “How big is your God?” Do we have an answer? Shall our reaction be the same as Job’s in that he repents, not of a particular sin that brought all that disaster upon him, but of how small he had made God?

The Revd. David Hildred

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