Bible Wonders - DANCING IN SORROW

Did you ever wonder? Did you ever wonder?

I do. Did you ever wonder? Why the sun always rises, but the stars never fall?

Why dry land is never satisfied by water? And why fire never says enough? We'll dig into that a bit, but in this whole, Job 41, is God's description to Job of Leviathan, and this being a picture of a dragon, clearly a fire-breathing dragon, but also a picture of Satan, sort of what all goes into those different parts that have to do with his pride, which reflects to those of his children or the children of pride.

It's often me, unfortunately. But in 41, 22, it kind of turns, and it gives us some hope. I bet it gave Job some hope, but I bet he also, like me, had to just sit there and wonder, because what God said was, and again, he's talking about Leviathan, he says, In his neck dwells strength, and before him dances sorrow.

What? Yeah, it says before him dances sorrow. So, again, you would know that I would begin to just really study this, and you might know that quite often in the Old Testament, God refers to Israel as stiff-necked, and those of us who struggle with pride, which I'm guessing would probably be a lot of us, you know, that whole idea of stiff-necked, which, you know, you get from anybody who's ever ridden a horse, know what that means. Somebody has a stiff neck, and so this idea of Satan being stiff-necked should not be a surprise to anybody. But I love this word that is translated in his strength, and that word strength in Hebrew is this picture of a yoke being yoked to this plow. So, obviously, in his own way, Satan is God's servant, and he's plowing up our soil, and I'm sure if you've ever experienced him at any length, you know what I'm talking about. I mean, he gets us all stirred up, which is fascinating that the result of that, which I hope gave hope to Job, and it certainly gives hope to me, is it says, and before him dances sorrow. And I couldn't help but think of the 23rd Psalm where David talks about, you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemy.

So here Satan is clearly God's enemy, and here we have dancing, and we get back to that whole concept that we learned of from Joseph in the book of Genesis, that what Satan is meaning for evil, God knows works good. And just like, blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Well, when you get comforted from God, I'm sure like many of you, you know, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. You know, when I had cancer and I got crushed between the jeep, yeah, I was getting plowed under by Satan, but never was I ever comforted like those particular times. And what that meant for my heart and what that meant for my faith, I literally danced with sorrow. I love that, and my prayer for all of us is we reflect on our lives and the things that we may have originally thought were for evil, but God meant them for good. I wonder if you could just wonder with me a bit about how we danced in his presence in sorrow. Do we ever wonder? Did you ever wonder? I do.