Job 36:24-37:24

“Remember to magnify His work, of which men have sung.” (Job 36:24, NKJV)

Have you ever noticed how powerful worship can be? As we come together we get our eyes off of ourselves and onto God. We stop thinking about what we don’t like on earth and start thinking about who we do love in heaven. I love worship that magnifies the goodness of God. One of my highlights about this time last year was at the Boise Harvest in the Extra Mile Arena. Chris Tomlin led everyone in singing, “You’re a Good, Good Father.” In that moment nothing else mattered but worshiping God together.

We have been created to worship. If we don’t worship God, then we will worship something or someone else. Our worship is not only our singing, but even more importantly, it is who or what we give ourselves to. If we do not magnify God and His works and His words, then we will magnify ourselves.

In his frustration about his circumstances and his lack of understanding, Job had magnified his own righteousness rather than the righteousness of God. This led him into a self-righteous deception where he spoke freely about things he did not know. Job’s friends had tried to correct him by accusing him of sin, but Elihu magnifies the greatness and power of God.

Elihu focuses on God’s work in nature. He forms clouds, distills rain, and illuminates the sky and the sea with lightning. His voice roars through thunder, and He commands the storms. He does great things that we cannot understand so that everyone may know His work.

Job had been so busy complaining and defending himself that he had not stopped to consider the greatness of God and all His wondrous works. But God would show up in the next chapter to help him out! Then Job’s eyes would be opened to see God, and he would repent in dust and ashes (Job 42:5-6).

God will not likely speak to us out of the whirlwind as He did with Job. But He does speak to us by His Spirit and through His Word. He speaks to us through all the wondrous things He does. Are we standing still and listening?

“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” (Psalm 46:10, NKJV)