When Patience Fails

 

 

 

 

There were seventy-seven questions

Job didn’t get one right

A huge zero was on his paper

I guess he wasn’t too bright

But when compared to God

Everyone is a dunce

And if God gives an examination

We would most likely flunk

Such was Job’s case

When God questioned him

His friends felt he had gone wrong

Somewhere there was sin

Job pleaded his innocence

But they still had their doubt

So Job asked God some questions

To God he called out

God passed Job’s test

But gave Job a test of His own

Job’s score was zero

But he would not have been alone

Were it given to the brightest man

And Job must have been quite bright

Just like Job he would have failed

For only God has such insight

Before you attempt to criticize God

Think of the whole of creation

Then you’d see how ignorant you are

All that support evolution

The natural mind gropes

In the midst of God’s examination

And His Spirit cannot be traced

By way of man’s education

 

The questions God asked Job

Went beyond the mere superficial

Such were to awaken in Job

A deeper understanding of the spiritual

God is a spirit

And all He created provides that proof

Hence we are to relate to Him

In spirit and in truth

Many give counsel

With their supercilious speech

But their dire absence of knowledge

Displays an obvious breach

Gird up thy loins like a man

And answer God if you can

Where were you when He formed the earth?

Can you show its detailed plan?

The Examiner knows its measure

He determined its depth

He knows its length and breadth

These being the dimensions He set

He created the cosmos

With its oceans and galaxies

He ordered the universe

And sustains its activity

The afore going disciplines

Job had failed every one

Now he is questioned about the light

And God just had to move on

The sun was not the answer

For before the sun there was light

Job so struggled with the questions

He must have forgotten his plight

The weather and the rainfall

The other elements of earth

The spatial bodies’ influence

In Job’s knowledge was a great dearth

The planets and the stars

The wonders of the animal creation

Job has no answer

They are beyond his comprehension

Can Job perform wonders?

Can he speak like God as in thunder?

If so let him take God’s throne

And clothe himself with wonder

The power of the behemoth

And the wonder of leviathan

Job is out of his depth

His answering is now done

Men stand in awe

Of these wonderful creatures

Yet they fear not Almighty God

Who is Owner and Creator

 

Job failed God’s examination

But received copious notes

Today we derive the benefits

Because Job recorded God’s quotes

Job confesses his ignorance

“Of things too wonderful for me

I have heard of Thee by the ear

But now mine eye sees Thee

In Job’s attempt to represent himself

He took an abundance of lashes

Wherefore he abhorred himself

And repented in dust and ashes

 

Job’s three friends also suffered rebuke

For they didn’t have a clue

They spoke at length in their ignorance

Something that a lot of us do

Job was required to pray for them

And that God accepted for Job’s sake

And the Lord turned the captivity of Job

And gave him times more than He did take

Stewart Russell © July 2018