Dominion And Awe Belong To God

Job 25:1-6 -  Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:  "Dominion and awe belong to God; he establishes order in the heights of heaven.  Can his forces be numbered? Upon whom does his light not rise?  How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?  If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,  how much less man, who is but a maggot-- a son of man, who is only a worm!"

 

Bildad took one more turn to speak.  He called God the keeper of uncountable angels…who gives order to the Earth and all that his light shines down on. He just could not understand how Job could continue to claim righteousness…he just would not concede that it was possible.  He calls man a maggot…and a worm in God sight.

 

Bildad was right about the glory and majesty of God. God is higher that we could ever imagine with our human brains.  Ezra said it best in 1 Chronicles 29:11…. “"Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O LORD, and You exalt Yourself as head over all. “

 

But…Bildad crossed the line with his analogy that man was such a lowly creature. We are fearfully and wonderfully made….according to Psalms 139:14. And David also said that God made man …a little less than the angels…in Psalms 8. That sure does not fit Bildad’s assumption that we are so low we are worms.

 

It reminds me which side I belong on though…because God is in control …of all things…heavenly and earthly.....and that includes man.  We are reminded in Romans 3:22-24 that our only hope is to be washed clean with the blood of Jesus Christ.  It says…. “even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus.”

 

Father…I am amazed every time you remind me that you loved me so much that you gave your son to die for my sins….so I could be raised to walk beside you some day in Heaven. Thank you for your love and care…and grace…and mercy…and provision…despite the fact that I do not deserve one bit of it.  Help me to always remember that you control the stars in the sky…and the things that happen on Earth.  Help me to always thank you for all you have done and continue to do in my life. Amen.