Insightful Musings on the Scriptures
by
Raymond P. Sparre
Northwest University class of '67
Greetings, dear ones.
Is it age…or ??? My head is already wanting to nod off. At least the stimulation I will face in engineering the next steps in the shop with this huge table project will probably perk up my brain. Earlier this morning, I think I came up with some improved engineering strategies. Now I need to get on with execution.
Becki and I pulled off a walk/jog earlier…just before Thano had to run off to work at 8:30am.
Have a blessed day…as you get ready for storm.
Love, Dad/Ray.
God finally speaks. When He does, everything is put in perspective. It’s not clear what is meant by “the storm”—“Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm” (38:1). I suppose it could be in reference to the storm of human debate. In any event, the LORD speaks with convincing Sovereign authority. No one is inspired to question Him now.
There is something extremely stupid within the unenlightened human heart that emboldens one to actually accuse God of wrongdoing—to call His character and integrity into question. The stupidity of it all is confirmed by a simple consideration of comparisons. Comprehending something of this mind-boggling inequity does not require a college degree or any exceptional brilliance. Think of it. Even if a guy can do 50 one-arm pull-ups with each arm, what match is he for OMNIPOTENCE? Even if a guy can run the 440-yard-dash in 30 seconds and be an expert in human multitasking, he’s till limited to being in one place at a time, so what match is he for OMNIPRESENCE? And even if a person can expound on the grandeur of outer space, black holes, and the theory of relativity, what match is he for OMNISCIENCE? How equal and fair would be a conflict between one with limited resources (FINITE) who goes against one with unlimited resources (INFINITE)? Duh! We cannot over-state the vastness of this inequity. Can you comprehend the ratio of relationship between a teaspoon of sea water as compared with the expanse and volume of all the oceans of the world?
At the heart of man’s arrogant criticisms of the Almighty is a quest to gather support and justification for what he wants. And one of the main things he wants is to be free of any accountability to Sovereign Holy God. Like the flea, he cares not that what he wants causes irritations to his host. In fact, he may succeed at convincing himself that the dog, as well as the entire universe surrounding the dog, all revolve around him and what he wants.
Please do not pass this vein of thought off as trivia—as though it had little to do with anything important. I believe that our personal attitude toward the Sovereign God has everything to do with everything—everything we think and do. Furthermore, I judge that it is of urgent importance to get our attitude toward God established and nailed down firmly. We are beholding a glaring shift in our modern world in the direction of secularism and humanism (and worse). Those ideologies hate our Judeo-Christian regard for the Most High and judge it as stupid. But both stupids cannot be equally stupid. Determining which is which, and to what degree, is part of our assigned job description. It was Job’s then, and it is ours now.