SCRIPTURE: You asked, ‘Who is this muddying the water, ignorantly confusing the issue, second-guessing my purposes?’ I admit it. I was the one. I babbled on about things far beyond me, made small talk about wonders way over my head. You told me, ‘Listen, and let me do the talking. Let me ask the questions. You give the answers.’ Job 42:3-4 MSG
THOUGHT: Merriam Webster defines the Socratic method as “a series of questionings the object of which is to elicit a clear and consistent expression of something supposed to be implicitly known by all rational beings.”
So, basically, it’s about refining or rejecting fat answers until you find skinny truth.
Funny how God taught Job using the Socratic method long for Socrates thought to ask a question, isn’t it? From Job 38 to 41, God asks Job a series of questions that the only obvious answer to is “no.” No, I don’t know how to do that, God. No, I have no idea how you came up with that, God. No, I can’t imagine what it took to create the alligator, or hold back the sea, or call the wind.
The skinny truth, for us and Job, is that God is God and we are not – a truth that is supposed to be implicitly known by all rational beings. Sometimes, we just need to run out of fat answers for everything and be quiet.
SONG: Indescribable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLMVqNwypjA
PRAYER: We are silent before you, Great God. We don’t understand it all, but we do know this: you are God and we are not.
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