Job 34

Truly, God will not do wrong. The Almighty will not twist justice. Did someone else put the world in His care? Who set the whole world in place? If God were to take back His spirit and withdraw His breath, all life would cease, and humanity would turn again to dust.

(Job 34:12-15)

This verse got me thinking… I’ve been asking myself, “What WOULD happen if God withdrew from us, if He truly abandoned us?” Can you even begin to imagine a world where God WASN’T at work? One where God did wrong, or twisted justice to His own ends? Can you imagine if we lived in a world where God just didn’t care about us or anyone else? This world would truly be an AWFUL place.

We often here people asking the question “where is God when _______”. They talk about God in terms of why does He do this, why doesn’t He do this, etc… In the midst of their struggles with the circumstances of life they are losing sight of what would happen if God WASN’T involved. We need to remember that God is really the only reason we breathe. He is the only reason we have life at all. The question shouldn’t be “why is God letting this happen to me”; on the contrary, it should be, “why does God continue to sustain me, why does He allow me, a sinner, to live anyway”.

Listen to the words of Psalm 8:

O LORD, our Lord, Your majestic name fills the earth!

Your glory is higher than the heavens.

You have taught children and infants to tell of Your strength, silencing Your enemies and all who oppose You.

When I look at the night sky and see the work of Your fingers—

The moon and the stars You set in place—

What are mere mortals that You should think about them?

human beings that You should care for them?

Yet You made them only a little lower than God

and crowned them with glory and honor.

You gave them charge of everything You made,

putting all things under their authority—

the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents.

O LORD, our Lord, Your majestic name fills the earth!

(Psa 8:1-9)