We Can’t Master God, but We Can Wrestle With Him

God is neither predictable nor capricious. He transcends all of our easy formulas but his actions are not without reason. Bildad and Zophar offered Job simplistic principles and platitudes about God. Some of their “cookie cutter” conclusions were very unkind, “your kids obviously sinned and so did you so you’re getting what you deserve” (Job 8:4, 11:6, 13). Job, on the other hand, accuses God of being so much higher than us that we could never understand him or reason with him. So why try? (Job 9:14). Job is showing Deist tendencies, while Bildad and Zophar are displaying the worst of Evangelicalism. God is transcendent, but He does call us to “reason with Him” (Isa 1:18). God does not act on a whim. There is a good cause for everything God does. Though we may not understand Him, He invites us to “wrestle” with Him in relationship.