Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south? Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes its nest on high?”
NL Daily Devotion for Friday, July 10, 2020
by R. Fergus Moir, Clergy Stuff
Nature doesn’t need my permission to run its course. In this continued harangue, God asks Job whether he has power over anything in all of the natural world. It’s a rhetorical question, of course—Job doesn’t. The point being that if God is the one who rules over all of creation, and Job is just one more member of creation, then all of Job’s claims of righteousness and entitlement to better treatment by chance are null and void.
No matter how wonderful I think I am, I can’t make the sun rise or a flower bloom or COVID-19 run its course and disappear. I am subject to the normal ebb and flow of the universe, just like everything else. Which means tragedy is possible. But that doesn’t mean God doesn’t love me, doesn’t mean that I have been abandoned. I need the humility to recognize that I am not God, and the confidence to claim that I am a beloved child of God.
Gracious God, remind me each time I see a bird take flight that you hold that bird in your loving arms. Amen.
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