Amazing Nuggets

Scripture:
Is the wild ox willing to serve you?
    Will he spend the night at your manger?
Job 39:9

Observation: Oxen DID spend the night at God's manger!!!!!!!!!!

God is challenging Job. In speaking of his own authority over all creation, God asks a provoking question ... will ox serve Job - or really any man - and come take rest with Job? And HUNDREDS of years later, God became flesh, came to earth, and on his very first night ... he was laid in a manger, and ox came to serve him and take rest with him!

Application: There really is no end to the amazing nuggets found in God's word. It is so full of guidance and teaching, of hope and wonder, of love and salvation. And then every once in a while, when God knows people may be asking 'can this really be the true word of God?', he throws in something like this - one stanza that directly connects to an event that will occur hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years in the future.

I cannot fathom God's ways, but he fully and completely understands his creation. He understands our logic and our thoughts and our ways, and therefore he knows we need mileposts and signs every once in a while to let us know that, in fact, his word is true. And when he drops those signs on us, they are mind boggling.

It is in times like this that I feel so renewed in my bible reading.

Prayer: Thank you, Lord, for your word, your love, and your signs. You are so amazing, and I am blessed just to serve you with my life. May my strength be renewed this day so I may serve you better. Amen.