In Job, chapter thirty-eight, verse one, God Himself now addressed Job. He revealed Job’s ignorance about the divine role in all that happened. He humbled Job by pointing out how little humans know and understand about the Almighty. However, God’s response came first-hand revelation to Job of God’s presence, mercy, and love. Job’s constant prayer and deepest yearning to find God was finally answered, as in chapter twenty-three, verse three, where Job responds to Eliphaz, and in chapter twenty-nine, verse two, part of his final speech, confirming that everything was still all right between himself ad the Lord.
The Lord’s response to His servant illustrates that God will ultimately come to all who sincerely and steadfastly call upon Him. Even if our prayers come from the hearts of confusion, doubt, frustration, or anger, God will eventually respond with His presence, comfort, and word.
The most important aspect of our relationship with God is not an intellectual understanding of all God’s ways but the experience and reality of His divine presence and the assurance that all is right between ourselves and God. In fellowship, we can endure any trial we are called upon.
Job had silenced but had not convinced his friends. Elihu had silenced Job but had not brought him to admit his guilt before God. It pleased the Lord to interpose. The Lord, in this discourse, humbles Job and brings him to repent of his passionate expressions concerning God’s providential dealings with him, and this he does by calling upon Job to compare God’s being from everlasting to everlasting with his own time; God’s knowledge of all things, with his ignorance; and God’s almighty power, with his weakness. Our darkening the counsels of God’s wisdom with our folly is a great provocation to God. Humble faith and sincere obedience see farthest and best into the will of the Lord.
There is so much that man knows not and cannot understand that it is absurd to suppose that he can judge aright in matters touching God’s moral government of the world.