Apr 13,14 - Job 12:10

In God's hand is the life

of every living thing.

Job 12:10

I love the image at the beginning of Genesis. To create, God took a handful of dust, and life comes from his breath. He takes a handful of lifelessness, and animates it with his Spirit.

Even in the midst of a book full of discouragement, Job trumpets this foundational truth: “in God’s hand is the life of every living thing.”

We live in a world that scoffs at the creator and his role in creation. But we do so at our own peril. As Paul says in Romans 1 …

20 Ever since the creation of the world [God’s] eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So [we] are without excuse …

Scripture says that there is no excuse to not recognize God.

As science itself proves – think of the Law of Entropy – randomness never gets more ordered and more sophisticated. It gets less! Therefore, it must be the living that produces the living.

Yes, we can scoff, mock, and devise alternative theories, and the inevitable result is that we’ll disintegrate into the inert chemicals that make up dust. That’s our default position. Or we can bow our hearts and say, “In God’s hand is the life of every living thing.”

In Christ’s Love,

a guy who’s bowed in awe