Am I Enough – So Many Clumsy Words

Greetings Dear Reader,

As I write this new pain has made its way into my family.  If anyone were to speak to the one in pain the way Job’s friends have spoken to him I do not think that I could be as kind and Job has been.

What Elihu says about the power of God is both true and amazing.  I have often found my heart full of worship at the onset of a storm.  I love the variants of weather and the challenges they bring.   I see God in the storm and it brings me joy.

I do not see Elihu applying these great truths properly.  He uses truth to equate God’s power to Job’s guilt.  He threatens Job with retribution from God.  He pushes Job to confess to sin he has not committed. 

I must assure that I do not use God as hammer.  There are times when he is one but that is his call not mine.  I must assure that I communicate all things about the power and majesty of God in a loving and kind way.  It is the purview of God to use his power to get our attention.

My responsibility is to show that his power is intended to draw us to him.  I am to be an example of his love.  All of Job’s friends are to be my counter-example of how to treat those in crisis.  Anything else is to abuse the power of God in the lives of men.

The words I choose matter so much as I seek to reflect God’s perfect Word, Jesus.

The Final Word – Michael Card

You and me, we use so very many clumsy words

The noise of what we often say, is not worth being heard

When the Father's wisdom wanted to communicate His love

He spoke it in one final perfect word

He spoke the incarnation and then so was born the Son

His final word was Jesus, He needed no other one

Spoke flesh and blood, so He could bleed and make a way divine

And so was born the baby, who would die to make it mine

And so the Father's fondest thought, took on flesh and bone

He spoke the living luminous word, at once His will was done

And so the transformation, that in man had been unheard

Took place in God the Father as he spoke that final word

And so the light became alive and manna became man

Eternity stepped into time, so we could understand

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store."

Job 37:1-24

"My heart pounds because of this and jumps out of its place.  (2)  Listen! Listen to the roar of God's voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.  (3)  He flashes his lightning everywhere under heaven. His light flashes to the ends of the earth.  (4)  It is followed by the roar of his voice. He thunders with his majestic voice. He doesn't hold the lightning back when his thunder is heard.  (5)  God's voice thunders in miraculous ways. It does great things that we cannot understand. 

(6)  "He says to the snow, 'Fall to the ground,' and to the pouring rain, 'Rain harder!'  (7)  He makes it impossible to do anything so that people will recognize his work.  (8)  Animals go into their dens and stay in their lairs.  (9)  A storm comes out of its chamber. It is cold because of the strong winds.  (10)  God's breath produces ice, and the seas freeze over.  (11)  Yes, he loads the thick clouds with moisture and scatters his lightning from the clouds.  (12)  He guides the clouds as they churn round and round over the face of the inhabited earth to do everything he orders them.  (13)  Whether for discipline, or for the good of his earth, or out of mercy, he makes the storm appear. 

(14)  "Open your ears to this, Job. Stop and consider God's miracles.  (15)  Do you know how God controls them and makes the lightning flash from his clouds?  (16)  Do you know how the clouds drift (these are the miracles of the one who knows everything), (17) you whose clothes are hot and sweaty, when the earth is calm under a south wind?  (18)  Can you stretch out the skies with him and make them as firm as a mirror made of metal?  (19)  Teach us what we should say to him. We are unable to prepare a case because of darkness.  (20)  Should he be told that I want to speak? Can a person speak when he is confused?  (21)  People can't look at the sun when it's bright among the clouds or after the wind has blown and cleared those clouds away.  (22)  A golden light comes from the north. A terrifying majesty is around God.  (23)  The Almighty, whom we can't reach, is great in power and judgment, has more than enough righteousness, and does not oppress.  (24) That is why people should fear him. He does not respect those who think they're wise."