Just a Worm

O. T. #1149  "Just a Worm"
Feb. 7, 2018
Job 25

LET IT GLOW

Bildad's brief and final speech refers to God being all powerful, yet man is as valueless as a (worm) maggot, in His presence. However, the value of man to God is seen in the atonement. (D. Jeremiah)

Bildad was saying that God was majestic and exulted, and man was sinful, especially Job. (MacArthur)

Paul wrote in Romans 11:33 about our Lord God, Oh, the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!

Not only is God loving and merciful, but He is so very deep that He is so beyond our understanding. Don't we want to be able to explain everything about God, interpret all His ways, and understand His workings? Friend, we just cannot analyze the whatever in our life. Do we see the whole story? Do we have His wisdom?

Isaiah 55:8-9 reminds us that God's thoughts and ways are higher than ours. He is so infinite and vast, while we are finite and small. Consider this:
If it were possible to travel the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), we would arrive at the moon in 1 1/3 seconds. Continuing at that same speed, it would take you 4 years to reach the closest star. It takes 8 minutes and 17 seconds for light to reach the earth from the sun. Traveling the speed of light, it would take us 25,000 years to reach the nearest galaxy from earth (Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy). (Unknown)

Wow! My little mind cannot comprehend all that is out there in space. Truly, God is great!

LET IT GROW

God is more glorious than the moon,
He shines brighter than the stars.
In comparison, people are maggots;
We mortals are mere worms. 
Job 25:5-6 NLT

Bildad adds nothing new to this discussion of the men. Since God is so mighty, and man is but a worm, in comparison, how does Job dare to stand before God and claim to be clean? Even the stars could not make such a claim.

I say, being compared to a worm is definitely humbling. Such a worm as I. Before Jesus saving me, I had no holiness or righteousness in me, for it all comes from God.

Lest we end on a low note, consider Psalm 29:11, The Lord will give strength unto His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace.

Well, so long to Job's three friends. Next we will hear from Job and Elihu.

LET IT GO

                               ... of sin, so I am not low as a worm.
                               ... of pride and bow before King Jesus.
                               ... and trust God's wisdom and knowledge and purposes.