Job 40-42
God confronts Job with Behemoth (sounds like the Brontosaurus, now called the Bracchiosaurus) and Leviathan (sounds like a fire-breathing water dragon, no wings). And Job says, I have declared that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know....Therefore I retract, and I repent in dust and ashes (Job 40:4).
Job says that he didn't know what he was talking about, and ran his mouth about things too high and deep for him to grasp. So he took it all back, and "repented in dust and ashes."
How often do I run my mouth, or my fingers, with texting and/or emails or postings of matters I don't fully grasp? Of situations I don't understand?
How can I take it back? Words are "out there," lie feathers on the wind.
Because Job humbled himself before God and prayed for his friends, God replaced everything he had lost with twice as much! (Job 42:12-15.)
I don't expect that in this life.
But I do trust His promise to accept me "in the beloved" (Ephesians 1:6) and to live forever in that New Jerusalem that will come down to the New Earth (21:1, 7) after this Earth explodes in fire and this Universe implodes on itself (II Peter 3:7, 10-12).
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
