Did the Hawk Learn to Fly from You?

Job 39:26
"Was it through your know how that the hawk learned to fly,
soaring effortlessly on thermal updrafts?

God's question to Job at the dramatic conclusion to the book of Job. This is part of a long series of questions and statements from God to Job. Job can answer none of the questions that God poses.

I'm standing in my room on the 20th floor of the Hilton in Atlanta watching a red-tail hawk fly gracefully around downtown. He ends up perched on the highest point of the Georgia Power building and I watch him through my binoculars. he seems quite content living in downtown.

No one taught Mr. Hawk to fly. It was only in this past century that man learned how to harness flight, although he is no where near as adept at it as a lowly hawk who has been around since Job's time. God seems to be saying to Job, "If you're not even capable of giving a hawk the ability to fly, how do you expect to be able to judge my actions" (oh, and hawk's flying? That was me).

Job, to his credit, gets this point. God is God, and Job is not God, which means that however incomprehensible God's actions are in Job's life, Job has no where near enough information or wisdom to be able to judge them. Job must just trust.

And this is the great lesson of the book of Job for us. We must just trust that God knows what he is doing in and through all the pain and difficulty of our lives.