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Job 41:1-7 What in the world is a Leviathan?

Good morning saints,

Almost to the end of Job.  But not to the end of wisdom or of God.  

Blessings

Jeff

The Lord finishes His questioning with "Leviathan".  Exactly what this creature is is unknown.  Sounds like a cross between an alligator and a hippo to me.  As Jonathan spoke last Sunday about the reality of hell being far worse than the fires that symbolize it, so this may also be symbolic.  The most threatening sea creature you can imagine is nothing compared to the reality of the LORD.

This is what makes wisdom literature different from historical narrative.  Take words as far as you can and then realize how poorly they describe what you are thinking of.  In mathematics, the concept of infinity comes close to this.  No matter how big a number you can think of, there is always another number that is one more.  Sand on the seashore is not infinite.  Given enough time, each grain could be counted.  It is a very large number but not infinite.  Then think about how many numbers are there between 1 and 2.  Well that is infinite as well.  Words and numbers can only go so far.  

There is the infinitely large and the infinitely small.  God condescends to use language to picture what He is like.  But it does not mean that what He says fully explains the topic.  

Instruction - What does God expect from me?  Accept the limitations of language in trying to understand Him.  Even inspired writers are limited in a way.  All they say is true, but they cannot say all that is true.  Be content with the truth revealed through them.

Thanksgiving - The One who fills all things in all ways.  As vast as the cosmos is, He is outside of space and time.  Beyond our ability to comprehend.

Confession - Trying to confine God within the limits of human understanding.  The finite cannot hold the infinite.

Petition - Let us make little of ourselves and much of You.

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