Swept Clean

The end of Job 37 is just as great as the verses we’ve read before:

Now no one can look at the sun, bright as it is in the skies after the wind has swept them clean. Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty. The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.

The past two daily devos were about the storm clouds and how God is in control of them; in fact, the clouds are poised, only waiting to move or pour – at his command.  Awesome!

Now that the storm has passed, these verses remind us of the blinding brightness of the sun in the sky, “after the wind has swept them clean.”  Can you picture the wind being a giant broom and showing up in the sky as if to say, “Clouds, be gone!” And then with one huge sweep, the clouds move and the sun reappears.  The sun was never  gone, it was just covered up momentarily.

The sun is indeed spectacular, full of golden splendor, and majestic.  We cannot even look at it with our eyes.  It’s too bright.

The almighty God is also all of these things and more – beyond our reach and more powerful than any force on the earth. However, in his great love he sent his son Jesus so that we can behold his face; we can admire his beauty, and we can bask in his goodness.

Storm clouds do show up from time to time, but the presence of the sun is never affected by the clouds.  And the sun always burns through the clouds, as the wind sends them on their way…

Look at the “son” because he has made a way to the father for you…where his face shines on you today through every threatening cloud that hovers over you...