What is God's saying in the snow? That's what we want to talk about now.

So I invite you to turn in your Bibles, if you have one, you can just listen if you don't to Job chapter 38.

Remember the story of Job?

How he suffered so deeply?

Questioned God's wisdom in allowing so much into his life and his friends gave

him bad advice until the young man Elihu stood up and gave good advice.

And then when Elihu is done, chapters 32 to 37, God speaks. And God's approach to Job is strangely to call his attention

to nature and throughout these first chapters of God's speech to basically

say you're not such a hot shot. You don't know much.

Humble yourself.

Let me read the first four verses and then jump farther down.

I'm reading the first several verses of

Job 38 just to give you the flavor of what God is up to. Then the Lord answered Job

out of the whirlwind, who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Girt up your loins like a man, I will question you and you shall declare to me

where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me if you have understanding.

And the implication surely is you weren't there and therefore you don't know much. Now jump down with me to

verse 22. He keeps on asking him question after question in this way. Have you entered the storehouses of the snow?

Have you seen the storehouses of the hail which I have reserved for the time of trouble for the day of battle and war.

Now, my first answer to the question, what is God saying in the snow is God is saying to Bethlehem

and to the Twin Cities and to Minnesota, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God.

Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God.

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