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Announcements › Forums › Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force? – June 17th, 2018 › Pride

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  • June 12, 2018 at 5:14 pm #6691
    spencel
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    “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?” Job 38

    Matthew Henry writes of this chapter, “For the humbling of Job,” and that “Humble faith and sincere obedience see farthest and best into the will of the Lord.”

    In Job 38:2 2 we read, “Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?”
    Barnes Commentary writes of this, “They(the words) conveyed no light… they did not tend to satisfy the mind, or to make the subject more clear than it was before. There is much of this kind of speaking in the world; much that is written, and much that fails from the lips in debate, in preaching, and in conversation, that explains nothing, and that even leaves the subject more perplexed than it was before. We see from this verse that God does not and cannot approve of such ‘words.'”

    I find this part of Job refreshing because it reminds me that I am not a creator, originator or in charge of anything. Who do I think did all this? To keep my communications and “conversation in heaven” I must rule out pride so that I am letting my, “light shine” in the world. When I looked up these citations in the Bible I did not realize I would be learning more about the importance of destroying pride and cultivating humility.

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