14 “Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God’s wonders.
When I am in trouble, suffering and at the end of my rope, I like to reflect on the greatness of God. It brings me comfort. I ponder the events of the Scriptures and realize that He is able to intervene in history. He is not isolated and aloof. He cares about us. And I love thunderstorms. They give me a glimpse of power that we rarely get to see firsthand. The power in a single thunderstorm is more than the atomic blast that leveled Hiroshima at the end of WWII. That’s a lot of energy! Elihu in the final section of his appeal to Job references this power as he tries to win Job to a repentance that he is certain he needs. Remember that Elihu is convinced that Job has some great hidden sin or sins that has caused the disasters to fall on him. In Elihu’s sin equation if there is disaster then there must have been sin, and the bigger the disaster, the bigger the sin. When we witness suffering our natural tendency is to question the justice of it. Something very deep inside us knows that suffering is not supposed to be, that there is something broken in this world. In those moments we want to believe that the power of God can be used to bring about change. I think this is what Elihu is doing in this chapter. He desperately wants to make sense of the suffering. He wants the LORD to show up and fix it, just like we do.
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