to big for your britches

Job 38:1-11 is the beginning of God’s 4 chapter answer to Job who has laid out his complaints against God.  As I read these first 11 verses, in which God begins – “Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.” Or my paraphrase – Stand up and get ready for a smack down and you will take this like a man. I’m going to tell you what is going on and ask you if you really understand…

You see God asks Job if he thinks that God isn’t qualified to be the creator of everything and the one who is actually in control of Job’s life. Job is asked where he was when God created. And does Job actually think that he is better qualified than God to be the one in control…

I think we all get to this point. I remember it being called – Being to big for your britches…

Well we all get there and we all know that God is the one who needs to be in control. It made me think of Todd Agnew’s Song Where Were You. I include it here for listening enjoyment…

I thought up all the question that my human mind
could bring and laid them out before the Lord
And demanded a reason for these things
I asked about inequality and about the success of evil men
But what was I to say to Him
When He answered with this question

Where were you when I split the sky and sea
Where were you when I taught the lion to roar
Where were you when I made electricity
Fall from the sky in the middle of a thunderstorm
Where were you

I had no response, I had no reply
As the One who spoke and is the Truth
opened up my eyes
I laid my time of doubt at the feet of the Infinite
But what was left for me to say
When he answered with this question

Where were you when I split the sky and sea
Where were you when I taught the lion to roar
Where were you when I made electricity
fall from the sky in the middle of a thunderstorm

Where were you when I put stars in the sky
Where were you when I taught the eagle to fly
Where were you when I made that little child look just
like her mom but she had her Daddy’s eyes
Where were you

Christian lyrics – WHERE WERE YOU LYRICS – TODD AGNEW