Streams in the Desert for Kids
Above the Clouds
When you read a verse like the one above from Job, you may begin to wonder what was going on with Job and his friends to bring up such a conversation.
These guys said to Job, “Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash? Do you know how the clouds hang poised?... Can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze?... Now no one can look at the sun, bright as it is in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.” In other words, “Job, you don’t know enough to understand God’s ways.”
Then God answered Job (chapters 38–41; read it sometime—it’s beautiful). God said that he is the one who has created everything the way it is. God sees the sun even when to us it is covered by clouds. Now Job knows he can hear from God. He can understand what God is doing in the world when he learns to consider that God’s perspective is so different from ours.
Do you want to hear from God and see his bigger perspective? You can if you will pray with all your heart and ask God to show you his plan and his way.
Dear Lord, I know you made everything, understand everything, yet you want to talk with me. You give me understanding. Amen.