OCTOBER 31, 2023
“But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?” (Job 35:10, 11)
The complaint of the speaker here is that the tyrants and oppressors of the earth seem never to consider or consult God their Maker, or to enquire, “Where is God my Maker?” Worse still, is the speaker’s lament that even among the oppressed there was the same neglect. They cried out by reason of the oppression, but sadly they did not cry out to God their Maker, though He gives songs in the night, and teaches wisdom to His persecuted people. There is one common fault in our nature, which the Apostle describes in Romans: “There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.” Unless grace moves us, we are prone in our times of trouble not to say, “Where is God my Maker, Who giveth songs in the night?”
There are four questions that are here compressed into one. First, “Where is God?” Above all things in the world our thoughts ought to be of Him. In everything, whether joy or sorrow, the Omniscient God of Providence should immediately come to mind. It is totally unacceptable that God is all in all, that we owe everything to Him, that we are under allegiance to Him, and yet, “God is not in all our thoughts.” (Psa. 10:4)
The second question is, “Where is God my Maker?” “The ox knoweth his owner…but my people doth not consider.” God made us; He fashioned our frame; by His hand we are curiously and wonderfully made. He has made these “instruments of ten thousand strings.” Wonderful, it is that they are kept in tune so long. He is our Maker! How shall we not think of Him without Whom we could not think at all? How is it that we do not seek and call upon Him Who is God our Maker?
There is great force in the third question: “Where is God who giveth songs in the night?” God is our Comforter. All the saints can testify that God is most precious in times of severe trials. He comes near the sick bed when one of His own is perhaps at the point of death. We have known His tender touch, and the song that He brings in the night when the sorrows of death compass us about. He can put a song in your heart when the blackest of darkness comes over your dwelling. There is nothing to fear even in death when God is there. Two little boys were talking about Elijah riding to heaven in a chariot of fire. One of them said, “He must have been very courageous. I think I would have been very frightened to ride in such a carriage.” “Oh no,” said the other, “I would not be afraid at all so long as God drove the chariot.” It will be very sad and inexcusable if we poor sufferers forget God, and forfeit the consolation of our Divine Comforter; if we refuse the soothing music of the Song-giver by not looking for Him or asking after Him in our hour of need. David said, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me.”
And then there is a fourth question: “Where is God my Maker…Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?” Here, we are reminded that God has given us intelligence. We are distinguished from all other living creatures of the earth. If animals and birds do not turn to God, we do not wonder at it, but shall men and women forget God? With many who are created in God’s image and likeness, it had been better for them if they were a beast or a bird, for then they would not be held accountable for their neglect. But every human soul shall surely answer to the God Whom they have forgotten.
Let us live out our lives in constant awareness of God’s presence. Let us be continually asking after Him Who is our Maker, our Comforter, our Instructor; Who is our Help whatever the circumstance, and whatever the need.
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