Job 39:1-3 ‘Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you observe the calving of the deer?
Can you number the months that they fulfil,
and do you know the time when they give birth,
when they crouch to give birth to their offspring,
and are delivered of their young?'
The quotation marks in the above passage indicate of course that someone is speaking. In this case, God is speaking. God is speaking to Job, the victim of terrible tragedy. Job did what we all do: he asked questions of God and of the universe in general: why? why now? what does it mean? does it mean anything? God speaks to Job to try to reassure him... God wants to reassure Job that God is in charge of the universe and that God knows what is happening... that God cares for everyone and every thing in the universe.
Because God knows when the mountain goats give birth. God watches the calving of the deer.... knows exactly the months involved. God knows and God sees. And God cares. In the midst of tragedy, we hurt. In the midst of tragedy we ache. In the midst of tragedy we weep. But at the end of the book of Job, Job makes a confession of faith: I believe. I believe that God cares. Sometimes it's a radical and a desperate cry of faith in the face of pain and agony... it is the rope to which we hold when all else is melting away. I believe. And I believe that God cares.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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