God is Sovereign

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​Today’s Bible Reading: Job 6-9

If you have ever read the book of Job before you know that much of what these friends of Job’s said they got wrong, mainly they were convinced that all that had happened to Job and his children was due to sin in their lives and God was giving them what they deserved.  But we have the rest of the story and we know that is just not true.  Still there are snippets of truth to be found in Job.

This passage caught my attention as it speaks to the power and sovereignty of God:
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But how can a man be in the right before God?
 If one wished to contend with him,
    one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength
    —who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?--
 he who removes mountains, and they know it not,
    when he overturns them in his anger,
 who shakes the earth out of its place,
    and its pillars tremble;
who commands the sun, and it does not rise;
    who seals up the stars;
who alone stretched out the heavens
    and trampled the waves of the sea;
who made the Bear and Orion,
    the Pleiades (some of the constellations we see in the night sky) and the chambers of the south;
who does great things beyond searching out,
    and marvelous things beyond number.  (Job 9:2-10, ESV)
 
To God be the glory,