April 16, 2026
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Reading along with us in Job? Here’s today’s reading:
Job 26 (NIV)
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1 Then Job replied:
2“How you have helped the powerless!
How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! …..Continue Reading
“Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”
I love this statement from Job. We are so small and could never really grasp the vastness of God’s power and strength. Often we cannot even see even His simplest paths and plans for us until we are through them. How often I have been so confused by my situation, maybe I thought it unfair or unnecessary, and by the time God got me through it, it made perfect sense! He is infinite. He is awe inspiring. As Job noted, He is creator of all and we still have not even fully grasped and understood all of His creations. Science tries to find ways to deny Him and instead just continues to make new discoveries that only make the creation more impressive and point right back to a great Creator!
God is awesome in power and creation is full of the displays of His glory. He is worthy of all our praise and regard and can be trusted in all aspects of life. It is amazing that He shares Himself with us to provide us guidance, wisdom and power to live. We need Him in all facets of life to function in the way that we should. Where would we be without Him?
I love the way Job describes the work of God’s hands. The words he uses paints a beautiful picture of the magnificence of this world, and “these are just the outer fringes of his works.” I wonder what heaven, God’s perfect place, will be like when the Earth, a fallen world, is filled with such beauty.
Job 26
“And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?””
Job 26:14 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/job.26.14.NIV
Job 22 through 26.
Job is extremely difficult for me to read. What I gather, Job knew he was right in God’s sight, and always deferred to God’s greatness over his own.
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I was thinking of Jobs point that what we experience from God is but a whisper from Him, we cannot even grasp the contrast of the Thunder of His power, in a few chapters,
God is going to “thunder” at Job. I wonder about those interactions and how the conversation plays out physically.