Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds shared the following post today.
Ed Welch:
Apart from the giving of the law, God’s longest speech in the entire Bible is in the last four chapters of Job. It is a speech intended to cause Job to grow even more in knowing God’s greatness. If you read these chapters every day for a month you will find that they are a treatment for almost anything. Do you fear people? Are you suffering? Are you anxious? Depressed? Struggling with anger? Hard-hearted? listed to these questions from the mouth of God.
“Have you ever given orders to the morning?” (38:12)
“Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?” (38:17-18)
“Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are?’” (38:35)
The pace of God’s questions is relentless. They leave you speechless. But they are graciously delivered to a righteous man who prizes the fear of the Lord above all else.
Ed Welch, When People Are Big and God Is Small, pp. 115-116
By the way- the whole book is worth reading.