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Reading JOB to Know God

Chapter 9 Greater Vision and Revelation

In chapters 8-10 I find three great principles, the chief of which is this. You
have to have a high vision of the Lord. Everything depends on how you see
God. The greater your vision of God is, the more accurate your vision of
everything around you will be also. Let me ask you a question. Did Job
have a high vision of God? Read chapter 9:3-12. Job saw God as the
sovereign one in control of everything. The one who made the mountains
and controlled the stars! Job had a marvelous theology, but I believe he had
a low vision of God. Let me illustrate.
Job’s view of God was solid concerning His power, His wisdom, His
strength and His sovereignty. But Job did have a problem with the justice of
God. He was not too sound on that. He had a problem with the righteousness
of God. He had no problem with the power of God, that’s what he was afraid
of. That is why he was trembling. God is so awesome I cannot fight Him.
We are thinking that Job had no trouble understanding the power of God, but
trouble with the righteousness of God. If we look at the end of the book we
see something different. We would expect the Lord to fix Job’s view in
regard to justice and righteousness. But do you know what He does? He
reveals Himself as the strong one. He shows Himself as the God of creation.
He shows how He is sovereign, how He rules the animals. Then, all of a
sudden, Job is on his face saying, I repent with dust and ashes. What
happened there? Let’s take a look.
Let me illustrate it. We are talking about a high vision of the Lord? All right,
now watch. Some people, in their brain, have no thought of God, so they
have no vision of God. Some people think a little bit about God so they have
some thoughts of God. Some people, like Job, have their brain FULL of
God. That is all he could talk about! He did not say very nice things, but it
was all he could talk about.
Now watch. Did he have a high vision of God? No! For this reason. God fit
in his brain. I do not care what superlatives he used and how big he said
God was. Or even that he knew God is in charge of everything from the
atom to the Archangel. Big vocabulary and favorable expressions, but God
was still confined within his understanding. God was no bigger than Job’s

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