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Job 38:41
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Likewise, who brings food for the raven and who remembers the individual needs of each and every one? Who could keep track of all the myriad conflicting needs of so many and decide who would be satisfied and who would be sacrificed in this world under the bondage of corruption, the curse? That cry of the young ones is, as Gill says, interpreted by the Lord as a cry unto him, for the adult raven does not know where its supply of food will come from. It hears the cry and responds as nature teaches it to do with a desire to fill the mouths of its young, but it does not know where providence will place the next meal. ‘Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?’ (Matthew 6:26).God takes upon himself the task of feeding every mouth. He stands behind every mother raven and hears, with a much wiser ear than her, the cry of her young ones. Indeed he put that cry in their mouths to make all nature look to him for its needs.
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Even one of these great tasks which the Lord sets before Job would overwhelm him and ought, as an intelligent but limited creature, to drive him back to the Lord again in acknowledgment that God alone can run the world and with a horror that he should suggest otherwise or dare to question the wisdom of so great a Provider. What seems to a problem may be doing something else that is good. Some of our problems are achieving other things. Job is being brought to see he must trust God.
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