“Stopped” (Job 38:4-11)

"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy? "Or who shut in the sea with doors, When it burst forth and issued from the womb; When I made the clouds its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling band; When I fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors; When I said, ‘This far you may come, but no farther, And here your proud waves must stop!’”

God is in control of every detail of life, and He is above us. So, we are RIGHT to submit to His wisdom: He knows how to make a beach, and yet have an ocean that doesn’t conquer it.

He knows how to allow SIN in this world, and CONTROL it for good. He knows what He is doing, and we are insignificant in wisdom… like the worm arguing with God, even so it is with man: we know NOTHING, except what He teaches, which is wisdom.  If we had power and wisdom, then we could do as we fit, we could argue and bring Him before judges, but we DON’T, and He is SUPREMELY wise and good. We shall see His ways WORKED out, even as we’ve seen Him wisely rule history. He gave His Son to DIE, so that sinners could be JUSTLY redeemed. None of the saints understood the purpose, but that didn’t make God unwise, even as it is now -  “Then he said to them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself… And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?” (Lu 24:25-27, 32)

Thus, you and I may not SEE what He’s doing, but He’s doing what He has said, which is JUSTICE and goodness only. He will never make a mistake or act in a way that doesn’t glorify the PERFECTION of His character as WISE, mighty, holy, and loving.  God is to be submitted unto, even as you submit to the doctor, the lawyer, or the teacher in school, accounting their wisdom greater than yours.  But know, He is PERFECT and to trust Him is to be wise!