Job 9:5-10 (NASBStr)
“ It is God who removes the mountains, they know not how,
When He overturns them in His anger;
Who shakes the earth out of its place,
And its pillars tremble;
Who commands the sun not to shine,
And sets a seal upon the stars;
Who alone stretches out the heavens
And tramples down the waves of the sea;
Who makes the Bear, Orion and the Pleiades,
And the chambers of the south;
Who does great things, unfathomable,
And wondrous works without number.
Throughout the book of Job we read about his pain, suffering and arguments with his three friends. As they all seek understanding in the middle of this crisis, they say foolish things, mostly. Yet, at times, they each stumble on truth that inexplicable. The above passage is a prime example. Job, in this chapter, is in the middle of a compliant to his friend, Bildad, and, perhaps God at the same time. Job is explaining to Bildad that God can do what He wants when He wants and he, Job, has no standing before God. This is Job talking absent the thought of Christ. Job is stating that, if it were up to him to defend himself against God, for any reason, he is extremely out-matched. Thus the above passage. But, in this foolish statement (for those who have faith in God have Christ as their mediator), Job confesses the awesomeness of God. God has established the heavens and the earth. If God wants, He can crush a mountain; shake the earth; hide the sun; cause a star to move to stand still; lift the wave of the sea so high they crush the earth; or, set the stars in such an order in the sky they form the outline of a bear. God does great things. God does things we can't even fathom in our finite minds. The finite can't understand the infinite. Today one of the chief spokesmen for the Reformed view is Dr. R.C. Sproul, who loves to state this truth as follows: .. "in the Latin phrase 'Finitum non capax,' 'The Finite cannot grasp (or contain) the infinite.' Because God is infinite in his being and eternal, and we are finite and bound ... for the manner of understanding we say that, so far as intention is concerned, ...we can't grasp the infinite." Job knows, without a mediator, he can't grasp what God is doing in his life. But, thankfully we have both the mediator (Christ), the outline of His plan (the Word) and the author of it (the Spirit). We can not only grasp the above we can come to the point that we rejoice in these truths, despite our circumstances or situation.
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