Willard S. Boyle, Nobel Prize
winner in physics, was the co-inventor of the “electronic eye” behind the
digital camera and the Hubble telescope. He was in the market for a new digital
camera and visited a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The salesman tried to
explain the complexity of the camera to Boyle, but stopped because he felt it
was too complicated for him to understand. Boyle then bluntly said to the
salesman: “No need to explain. I
invented it.”
After God allowed Satan to test Job by taking away his
family, his health, and his possessions (Job 1–2), Job lamented the day of his
birth (ch. 3). In the following chapters, Job questioned why God would allow
him to endure so much suffering. Then with divine bluntness, God reminded Job
that He “invented” life and created the world (chs. 38–41). God invited him to
rethink what he had said. In drawing attention to His sovereign power and the
depth of His wisdom displayed everywhere on earth (38:4-41), God exposed the
immensity of Job’s ignorance.
If we’re tempted to tell God how life should work,
let’s remember He invented it! May He help us to humbly acknowledge our
ignorance and to rely on Him—the Creator of the universe.
To understand God is impossible,
but to worship Him is imperative. (RBC)
but to worship Him is imperative. (RBC)
