Day 15: Job 40-42

I come away from reading the last chapters of Job, this time, with a real humbleness. Job kept thinking that he had all kinds of big questions for God. In essence, I think he he believed he could do things better than God. And isn't that what all sin really is? As soon as God threw His questions at Job, Job realized who he was and who God was. I think real encounters with God always bring me back to that point and put my life and my wants and desires and my opinions into the right perspective. It is so not about me. It is ALL about God. Like Job, how quickly I can fall into self pity when I don't acknowledge in my heart that it is all about God.

It is at these moments in my life when I can really say, like Job, "I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes. I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show repentance."