Job 37:14-16 Listen to this, Job. Stop and consider God’s wonders. Do you know how God directs his clouds or makes their lightning flash? Do you understand how the clouds float, those wondrous works of him who has perfect knowledge?
Lets take a gander at the sky for a moment. Cloudy days are synonymous with springtime. They help the sun hide from us a little longer prolonging her radiant return come summer. There are many types of clouds. Clouds can bring rest and respite from heat. They can shower rain, snow or hail (sometimes all at once). Clouds can light up the sky with their lightning and demand your attention with their thunder.
Pay attention to the action words from Job 37:14 Listen. Stop. Consider.
Listen.The command to listen expects us to dial in to what important message is coming next. Listening makes us slow down, quiet ourselves, and position us for what we are to be listening to. Listening makes us tune our ear to hear the voice that is speaking to us.
Stop. Stopping compels us to cease and desist from our comings and goings. Stopping our actions, movement, and direction, submits the rest of our physical body to join our ears in listening. So often we “multitask” and don’t heed this advice to stop and therefore miss the message sometimes entirely.
Consider. Considering takes us beyond the physical and leads us to the mindful and thoughtful. Considering is the doorway to the spiritual. Now that we have listened and stopped, what are we supposed to be considering? The answer here in Job is God’s wonders. He uses the clouds to do just that. When we look at the springtime cloudy skies they are asking us to consider God’s wonders.
We learn to ask ourselves “Do you know how God directs the clouds?” “Do you know how God makes them flash with brilliant lightning?” My favorite one is “Do you understand how the clouds float?” It makes me laugh at its simplicity, but I love how the clouds make me ponder the wondrous works of him who has perfect knowledge.
So She Loves Much 