By Mike Dawson
Pastor Emeritus, First Baptist Church, Columbia
Focal Passage: Job 40:1-14
Remember how ‘God’s voice’ sounded in Hollywood films years ago? The Ten Commandments movie portrayed God speaking in a deep and resonate voice, in Shakespearean English, accompanied by rolling thunder and heavenly-sounding music.
None of the secular films starring “God” could adequately portray His true voice. But five men from the Book of Job could tell us precisely what His voice sounded like: Job, Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar and Elihu.
The “know-it-all” Elihu had finished his long, tiresome speech about God. Now the “All-knowing” God begins speaking. And — as our church choir sang almost every Sunday morning during my teen years — “Let all the earth keep silence before Him!” In previous studies of Job’s story we’ve seen the five men boxing each other with words. Now they all keep silence as GOD HIMSELF SPEAKS. [Read more…]