I used to hate reading the book of Job.  It didn’t make much sense to me, and there was all this talking, talking, talking, and these 4 guys.  Then one day I read the entire book in one sitting while I was home sick with strep throat, probably because I was feeling especially Job-like and miserable, and after reading the book as one dialogue, I had a better appreciation.

Job 38: 8-11″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’?

I read these verses this morning and smiled.  While I’ve been diving this week, there have been some amazing scenes that turn one’s mind to God immediately.  There are schools of fish numbering in the hundreds, and they all move as one.  They all dart to the left at once, and then turn around at once, as if taking orders from someone unseen.  How do they do that?  Did God make them that way just so they would point to his creation and his design?  There is so much color underwater on a reef in the coral, the big fish, the little fish, the flat fish hiding just under the sand.  It’s all so captivating.  And then, if you look to your left, you can see the vast abyss of blue that has no beginning and no end.  All of that is God’s.  There are parts that we get to see that have his clear signature, and then there is so much more that he spoke into being which shall remain mysterious.

In my Bible, Job 38 is entitled “The LORD Speaks”.  I love that he lists off the things that he has created, the things we take for granted and do not appreciate.  God does speak loudly to Job here, and he has also been speaking to me quietly all week about his glory and his creation.