- Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? Job 41:1 – Exactly what creature is being spoken about here is unknown, but the point God is getting as is. He is different than us and deserves to be acknowledged as such. Let’s put this passage in an easier to understand way. A blue whale is the biggest animal in the world. Up to 400,000 pounds, around the size of 30-35 elephants combined. Could you hook a blue whale with a fishing pole and pull it out of the water? Of course not, no human could, and that’s the point. God isn’t like us. Not only could He easily pull a blue whale out of the water, by His breath He can bring one into existence. God seeks to have an intimate relationship with each of us, but don’t take that as He is exactly like us. He is far greater, far more powerful, far superior than us. Maybe these last few chapters have been given to us to remind us just who we’ve stepped into a relationship with and to honor Him as such. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1493
- Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. Job 41:11– This chapter holds the last remarks of God towards Job. Again God here is establishing His greatness over the greatness of Job. Here we see God speaks of the Leviathan. While we aren’t certain exactly what is meant here, it is some large, powerful creature that man could never dream to control. It could even be referring to Satan himself, and how man could never control or overpower Satan on his own. Yet our God can. Everything under Heaven is His and everything is under His control. While this passage does a fantastic job of highlighting the might of our God, something though that isn’t included in this chapter, or any of the other chapters of God speaking to Job, is anything about why all this happened. Job is never clued into the whole God/devil conversation in the first chapters. At least from what we see is scripture, Job never learns why all this suffering came his way. While that may seem unfair and unjust to us, let us take a moment to reflect on what God had been saying to Job in all these chapters…who is man to question the works of such a mighty God? God is so grand, and man is so not. God sees all, we see so little. God’s hand can control the universe, we barely can control ourselves sometimes. Let us then be willing to be content when we can make no sense of what’s going on in our life. If God is moving, yet we can’t make sense of anything, let’s humble ourselves before Him by letting Him work without our opposition. Trust He loves you, and His glory is going to be found through this. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2666
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