Can you beat God in Trivia Pursuit? In Job 38-39 we have two of the most dynamic chapters in the Bible that put man in his place in regard to understanding the created things on this earth. In these two chapters God asks Job a series of questions about two or three aspects of his creation: Weather and Animals primarily, and then a few questions about space. God is out to show Job that with all his learning he is still a created being not the Creator. God asks Job these things to show Job that despite what he thinks he knows he really knows very little about why animals and weather act the way they do. Man has filled himself with such knowledge that he has exalted himself above all. Yet, God, in just a few questions lets Job know he really doesn't know much at all. In Job 39 we read about the Ostrich. God has so made this remarkable animal that man can at all understand it. God tells us in 39:17 the following:
Because God has made her forget wisdom,
And has not given her a share of understanding.
God has purposely made the ostrich in such a way to withhold from it wisdom and understanding about her eggs and young. Why? Do you know? No, you don't. And that is God's point! He gives to one animal a certain aspect of wisdom and understanding and to another some other type of wisdom and understanding. That is what chapter 39 is about. God's point? He also gives man, a creation of His, a type of wisdom and understanding. God designed it all and forms it all and makes it all work. We might understand parts, but, like the ostrich, we only understand the parts God gives us to understand. When we are in the midst of a breakdown in the proportion of Job we need to go no further than to understand the sovereign power and creation of God.
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