Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“Then Job answered:
‘Indeed I know that this is so;
but how can a mortal be just before God?”
NL Daily Devotion for Tuesday, June 16, 2020
by Dr. Kimberly Leetch, Clergy Stuff
I’m not much of a camper. Wait, let me be perfectly clear… I loathe camping. It’s not just the bugs or the sleeping on the rock hard ground, or even the middle-of-the-night expedition to find the nearest porta-potty (or, heaven forbid – nature!). Or eating hot dogs that are burnt on the outside and cold on the inside. Or the layer of dew coating my sleeping bag, my hair, my eyelashes in the frozen chill of the morning (wait, what time is it? The sun’s up, so it must be somewhere between 5am and noon – I guess).
No, actually for me one of the most chilling aspects of camping is something others have found awe-inspiring and inspirational. Not me. I find it terrifying. It’s the moment I look up at the stars toward a sky that is not polluted with light. I see the vastness of the galaxy and imagine just how incredibly immense God’s creation truly is. And I feel very, very small. Tiny. Miniscule. I feel like an amoeba in the ocean.
In his suffering Job saw the irrelevance of humanity compared with the enormity of God. And he felt very, very small. Tiny. Miniscule. Like an amoeba in the ocean. In his smallness Job wondered if it was even possible for a God that immense to care for a filthy, flawed, frail humanity. In his grief Job didn’t believe so.
We will have to wait many more chapters for Job to learn differently. Just like we have to wait many years to be invited to comprehend the whole of reality. In the meantime, I shall rest easy in my soft bed under warm blankets beneath a sturdy roof and pretend I am not as small as I am.
God, I am small, but you care for me nonetheless. Thank you. Amen.
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