Before God spoke, the heart of Elihu is violent that he is trying to catch his breath as he speaks about His Majesty. (FYI- it is his 6th and final chapter of nonstop chatter!)
Elihu said that God has ordered the snow, "Blanket the earth!" and that He is in the charge of all weather and earth! Then he went on to say that they are for discipline or grace or extravagant love that He makes sure they make their mark. Do you believe that? Yeah it is Elihu's words as for now... but let's see what God said about the snow...
Before God explained His soverignity, He told Job, "Pull yourself together, Job! Up on your feet! Stand tall!" God wants Job to stand up face to face to talk, then God showed him how much Job still have to learn. It's like saying, "Hey Mr. Think-You-Know-it-all, I am going to change your name to Mr. I-Still-Have-A-Lot-To-Learn!"
Then God shows him why he doesn't know a lot. He asked, "Have you ever traveled to where snow is made, seen the vault where hail is stockpiled. The arsenals of hail and snow that I keep in readiness for times of trouble and battle and war?" Wow! He stores up all of those? Yeah! Now Job learned few things about what it looks like in the heaven!
I was amazed when God said that He stores them up for the battle! But if we look deeper into the Bible, we will find that He poured hail in Moses' time as one of nine plagues in order to set Israel free to worship Him! God's fighting for Israel, like how Greek imagined how Zeus took up his rod of thunder to give the thunderlight, God opened the vault to grab some hails and threw them down with His word! Imagine that! He fights for us, to move us where He wants us to be! We got to trust and stay in the shadow of His wings and let Him be our mother Eagle and let Him push us when we are ready to learn to fly and start flapping our wings through self-discipline (both physical and spiritually) and let Him do the rest!
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