Job 23:8-9 is the antithesis of Psalm 139:7-12. Job can't find God anywhere. The psalmist can't get away from God anywhere. What a difference of perspective!
But Job 26:14b-14c resonates with me: "...how faint the whisper we hear of him (God)! Who then can understand the thunder of his (the Lord's) power?" If one goes to a quiet locale, if one becomes silent, if one makes undisturbed room within, so as to perceive the still, small voice of God, then how overwhelming God's thundering power will be!
Lord, am I, like Job, looking for You in all the wrong places? Am I running from You in every other place? Have I stopped my ears to your whispering and cupped my ears to your thundering? Almighty God, grant me perspective consistent with Your will concerning me. Amen.
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