Job 39:19 (ESV Strong's)
“Do you give the horse his might?
Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
Subject: The Awesomeness of God
God will show us His awesomeness. In the midst of our pain and suffering the balm we need is to understand and rest in the fact that God is powerful and awesome. In these last chapters of Job we finally get God's Word. We have heard from Jobs friends and their counsel has fallen into more criticism than correction. Finally, God speaks directly to Job and challenges him with what he knows, compared to what God knows. In chapter 39 God specifically turns to what Job knows about the animal world, and, in the above verses, the domestic world of the horse. God is showing Job that if you want to get out of depression you should not take a personal inventory. If you want to get out of our slump you have to focus entirely on the power and greatness of God. God points out, in these chapters (38-41) that man's inventory of knowledge is minuet, as compared to God. Instead of justifying himself, Job should rest in the beauty and power and awesome knowledge of God. God set the might of the horse in motion. Today, we tend to see the horse as recreational in nature. In Job's day, as compared to an infantry solider, the horse would have been equivalent to the appearance of an Apache Helicopter on the battle field today. God gave the horse his might. The horse was without fear. The horse charged into battle with little to fear. God gave him the might to fight. Why do we worry about life's issues, when God is so cable of even making the horse fit for battle?
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