Day 281..."The Lord answers Job....Getting "Faith"

After chapters of reading Job's thoughts and the advice of friends, chapter thirty-eight is very dramatic as God speaks! God puts Job in his place quickly..."Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man;I will question you, and you make it known to me. “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding." As a priest said in the movie "Rudy"... "there is a God and I am not Him." Somehow Job must have felt like this when God answered all of his windy responses. Jeremiah uses a potter's vessel in his image of Israel's destruction..."Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, so that it can never be mended." Paul clears up why some people simply do not "get" faith. The understanding of God requires a spiritual mode of operation. Discernment comes from God. Paul states it like this..."The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ." What a wonderful goal! To seek to think like Christ!