Now I see You God.

Today’s Scripture: Job 42:5, NKJV- ““I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You.”

It took 42 chapters of the story of Job and His friends trying to figure out why all the bad things were happening to Him. Illness, death, and financial ruin were endured by Job, and he was still surviving based on his faith in a God he had “heard of”.

Job was saying to God in Job 42:5, I had only heard of You before but now I see you. So many of us say we do not see or hear God, but can we just be wrong? Is it possible we have seen and heard Him and just missed it because we were too busy acting like we know everything?

Over the last five chapters of Job, he and God were having a conversation. Job proved he had been humbled by his hardships and by God. In Job 42:3 Job confessed that he had previously been speaking out about things he did not even understand and now he had experienced that there are things beyond his and our understanding. God and His creation are too wonderful for us to understand. We cannot understand nature as much as humankind has studied it and professes to know what affects and controls it. God even asked in Job 38:4 ““Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.” (NKJV)

We do not need to understand God to see Him. We do not know how God laid out the dimensions of the earth, or how He laid the cornerstone while the morning stars sang together, and all the angels shouted for joy. God set the limits of the earth, commanded the morning, and caused the dawn to know its place.

There are places we have never been and will never see. We can see God in the constellations, but we cannot control the laws of the heavens. We do not have the dominion over the earth that the godless think we do. It is God who provides for us. We cannot possibly know everything, but we can see God in everything. In all of God’s creation from the smallest details to the grandest vistas.

We are so unworthy and unknowledgeable to question God. The proud will be humbled, and the wicked will be crushed by God and not by our understanding or strength. In Job 40, God even speaks of the Behemoth and the Leviathan that mankind is still trying to figure out while professing to know. Again, God makes it clear that we do not need to understand all to see God in all.

At some point we must come to the same conclusion as Job. We must know that it is God who can do anything. We can praise and pray to God out of thanksgivings for His creation. We can pray for our friends and our enemies to see God as he would have us see Him. It is God who blesses us and not the shallow offerings of this world.

Like Job, we can confess we do not understand and recognize that God blesses us with things too wonderful for us to understand. When we gaze upon God’s creation in amazement and see Him in everything, we do come to recognize God and know we have seen Him. Do you see God?

Today’s Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank You for Your creation and for creating us. I am humbled, overwhelmed, and thankful for Your wonders too wonderful for me to understand. Thank You LORD for opening our eyes to see You. I confess that I will never understand all Your ways, but I will praise and glorify You in all Your wonders always. Amen.