PrayerBits for Monday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Monday

Scripture lesson: Job 38:1-21 God being sarcastic

Time to reflect: Job has been challenging God's wisdom and fairness. God comes back with a long poem that puts Job in his place. In short who are we, mere mortals, to second guess the creator of the universe?

Moving Through The Day:  Can you think of a time when you didn't have all the information you needed for a judgment and could have/did make the wrong decision? Can you think of a time when you second guessed God?

Scripture:

Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said:

  "Who is this that darkens my counsel
       with words without knowledge?

  Brace yourself like a man;
       I will question you,
       and you shall answer me.

  "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
       Tell me, if you understand.

  Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
       Who stretched a measuring line across it?

 On what were its footings set,
       or who laid its cornerstone-

 while the morning stars sang together
       and all the angels shouted for joy?

 "Who shut up the sea behind doors
       when it burst forth from the womb,

 when I made the clouds its garment
       and wrapped it in thick darkness,

  when I fixed limits for it
       and set its doors and bars in place,

  when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther;
       here is where your proud waves halt'?

  "Have you ever given orders to the morning,
       or shown the dawn its place,

 that it might take the earth by the edges
       and shake the wicked out of it?

 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
       its features stand out like those of a garment.

  The wicked are denied their light,
       and their upraised arm is broken.

  "Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
       or walked in the recesses of the deep?

 Have the gates of death been shown to you?
       Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death ^[b] ?

  Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?
       Tell me, if you know all this.

  "What is the way to the abode of light?
       And where does darkness reside?

  Can you take them to their places?
       Do you know the paths to their dwellings?

  Surely you know, for you were already born!
       You have lived so many years!