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Day 149, or May 29.

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Why don't you stop and consider how great God is?

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Our thoughts today are rooted in Job chapter 36 verse 26.

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How great is God!

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Beyond our understanding, the number of His years is past finding out.

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And now the big picture surrounding this verse.

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Elihu doesn't let Job off lightly, and keeps reminding him that God is disciplining

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Job right now, and he needs to recognize that.

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He tells poor Job that God is great and far more powerful than all of us, as though Job

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needed to hear such an obvious comment.

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He gives Job several illustrations of how big God is, but I feel sure that Job not only

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knew these facts, but had probably used similar ones when talking to others about the God

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who he had faithfully worshipped all his life.

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After all, it would have been much easier for Job to give up and struggle on through

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his difficulties, but his God meant more than that to him, and he wanted some answers that

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would strengthen his faith.

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And now our action step for today.

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In the frantic activity of our 21st century world, there are very few moments to stop

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and consider.

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Job is challenged to do this by his young friend Elihu.

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He tells him to look up into the sky and ponder how great God must be, to make all this and

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keep it functioning smoothly.

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Of course, today many people will respond by saying that it just happened and there

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is no God or mastermind behind it.

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However, this argument only works if you can explain where the basic chemicals and molecules

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came from.

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We are not much closer to explaining all this than Job and his contemporaries.

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I don't mean evolution and all that, but where the basic building blocks of the universe

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actually came from in the first place.

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Why not get a quiet moment and consider what an amazing universe we live in, and that there

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are millions of people in the world today who believe there is a God behind it all.

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I suppose all these millions could be wrong, but I decided long ago that it's very unlikely

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that they are.

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Care to join me?