“Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me” (NIV) Job 38:3

It appears without a doubt that there are probably more questions in this life than there are answers to. Strangely, however, the engagement of humans in battling profound questions is an age old phenomenon. People from different fields have strived to understand many things while individuals have also probed to have answers to their predicaments. The first recorded question to man was from his creator and it was stated as “Where are you?”(Gen.3:9). Thus the identity of man was immediately connected to his location and/or condition. Therefore the question clearly shows that there was something definitely wrong.

It is always interesting when the Interviewer begins to question the identity of the interviewee. In Job 38, a similar encounter happened between God and Job of old. Having been inundated in throes of pain, Job remained still and later voices out his views. And just at the threshold of Job’s musing, God interrupts Job and immediately invites him for an oral interview (Job 38). About sixty four (64) questions were posed by God back to back. While Adam seem to have deviated from the question in the Garden of Eden, Job in this case turned speechless. Similarly, God’s first question was about the identity of the candidate (Job) and this is how He began: “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?” (Job 38:2).This was followed by series of tough questions from verse 4, “where were you when,.. who did this and who did that,..can you do this and can you do that? ”etc.

As humans who face daily difficulties inevitably, we end up sometimes in much despair. We ask a lot of questions, and even question God’s silence. But are we ready to face the questions of God? And who can win any argument with God? And who can add an hour to his life? (Matt. 6:27) Has God not stated that He will never leave nor forsake us? (Heb. 13:5-6). Let’s not repeat the mistake of Job or Adam for we have the privilege to surrender it all to the LORD. Indeed HE alone knows best!

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