God's Questions to Us and Ours to God

 In today's first reading, Job 38: 1, 12-21, 40: 3-5. God confronts Job, asking him:  "Have you ever in your lifetime commanded the morning and shown the dawn its place for taking hold of the ends of the earth, till the wicked are shaken from its surface?...Have you ever entered into the sources of the sea or walked about in the depths of the abyss? Have the gates of death been shown you, or have you see the gates of darkness? ...Which is the way to the dwelling place of light, and where is the abode of darkness?" And then, what may sound like sarcasm to us, says to Job: "You know, because you were born before them, and the number of your years is great!"

God asks you and me those same questions!  Who are we to question God? to rise up against Him?  We stand before an Almighty God, an all-knowing God, an all-merciful God, a God of infinite compassion and infinite wisdom, an all-loving God, a God whose love is always creating something new and restoring that which, perhaps with age,  has grown wicked.  Who are we to question God, who, in His creative love,  is always at work bringing new life to that which has begun to fade and wilt and rot, so to speak!  Who am I, who are you, to ever question God's ways, His love, His wisdom, His mercy, His patience?

Let us remember that every morn God takes "hold of the ends of the earth, till the wicked are shaken from its surface"! Every morn God enters "into the sources of the sea" and walks "about in the depths of the abyss"!  Every day God sees "the gates of death" and "the gates of darkness".  Every day, God knows "the way to the dwelling place of light and where "the abode of darkness" resides!

In the responsorial psalm of today's liturgy,  we  ask questions of God:"Where can I go from your spirit? From your presence where can I flee? if I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I sink to the nether world,  you are present there. if I take the wings of the dawn, if I settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even there you hand shall guide me, and your right hand hold me fast!"

God is God and you and I are a part of His creation, created out of love!