Job 25:2 (NASBStr)
“ Dominion and awe belong to Him
Who establishes peace in His heights.
Only God can establish peace and peace can only be established by the power and awe inspiring character of God. That seems to be Bildad's message to Job. And, it is a good message. We have to remember as we read Job that Job's friends were not often off with their advice. They were typically accurate with their counsel but simply wrong in the application of their counsel as it applied to Job. Bildad finally leaves Job alone and his "wicked people will have to pay and you must be wicked since your paying" argument. Now he moves into the area that God is simply too big and too far away for man to be in the same world. Note the verse above. Bildad is letting Job know that God is so great He is to be awed. Dominion and awe are God's. Peace is His. Only He can establish peace. When we want to give others encouragement we need to focus on the character of God. Getting past the poor application, Bildad is not wrong in this approach. Peace comes from God. Power is from God. Awe belongs to God. That helps us understand our pain, suffering, and turmoil. We can rejoice in God's character in the midst of the turmoil we are experiencing.
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