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Job chapter 40 verse 8, will you even put me in the wrong?

Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?

These are penetrating questions from God to Job in which God reminds all of us that

he is righteous, that he is perfectly good and perfectly wise and all that he is and does

is right and when we walk through suffering even if we walk through suffering that's not a

result of our sin like Job did we must be careful never to assume that we have the

knowledge or the power to be able to stand in judgment of God

himself.

The way Job 40 verse 2 puts it is shall a fault finder contend with the Almighty?

In other words, shall a sinful person who is not completely righteous,

whose mind is finite, who does not know or understand everything.

Shall this kind of person, shall you or I contend with the Almighty God who has no sin in him,

who is completely righteous? This is where we need to remember

amidst questions we have and suffering we face to make sure to ask those

questions as spirit of humility before God to express our emotions

before God with a spirit of humility and honor that recognizes at every moment we are the creature he is the creator we are

the sinners he is sinless we are prone to unrighteousness and he is completely righteous.

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