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Welcome to 5 -Minute Bible, your daily guide for your daily reading. Today is
January the 13th and we will be reading Job 35 -37. Now today's reading completes
Elihu's speeches and it brings us to the threshold of divine revelation. Job 35 -37 stands as the final moment of human wisdom before God Himself will speak a better word.
We are still in the patriarchal world without law, priesthood, or sacrificial mediation, but the conversation is going to stop circling endlessly after today.
The air is changing, the arguments are almost nearly spent, creation itself seems to lean in as Elihu's words give way to a gathering storm.
In chapter 35, Elihu argues that human righteousness does not benefit or add to God and human wickedness does not diminish
Him. He insists that God remains just regardless of human complaints.
Chapter 36 shifts the tone as Elihu begins to exalt God's greatness, portraying suffering as a means that God uses to instruct and to rescue.
Chapter 37 builds towards a climax as Elihu describes the majesty of God displayed in the storms, lightning, wind, and snow.
His final words direct attention away from human reasoning and toward the overwhelming power and mystery of the
Creator. As you read today, I want you to ask the following question, what posture is left when all human explanations give way to divine majesty?
Elihu is no longer trying to win the argument, he is actually attempting to prepare Job and the reader for an encounter with the
Almighty that will transcend explanation and demand humility. You see, the central tension at the end of human wisdom in Job 35 -37 is the gap that exists between our understanding and divine transcendence.
Elihu rightly magnifies God's power and His holiness and His freedom, yet he still speaks about God rather than yielding to God.
The storm imagery here signals that theology is about to move from discussion to confrontation.
Words will soon give way to presence. The pattern is becoming clear.
When God draws near, human arguments fail and fall silent.
Elihu's focus on God's majesty is good and it prepares us for the ultimate revelation of God, not just in Job, but in Jesus Christ.
In Christ, the God who thunders in the storm also speaks in human flesh. Where Elihu points to divine greatness from a distance,
Christ brings that greatness near. And yet, without diminishing it. Jesus is the one who commands the storm, embodies wisdom, and reveals the
Father, not through abstract power alone, but through incarnate presence.
Job is about to encounter God and His overwhelming glory, and the gospel reveals that this same
God comes to us in Christ with grace and mercy. And in Jesus, majesty and mercy kiss and meet fully and perfectly in Him.
As you read Job 35 -37 today, feel the tension that's building in the text.
Notice how human speech fades as the storm forms. The long silence of heaven is ending.
Human speech is becoming silent and God Himself is about to speak and nothing will remain the same after God has given
His word. And that's my prayer for you. So with that, read your Bible carefully, devotionally, and joyfully.
And may the Lord use His word to sanctify you completely and we will continue our journey tomorrow.