My Kind of Intellectual

Job 25-26

A couple of weeks ago, we had a short Sunday evening series viewing a couple of Louie Giglio DVDs... Indescribable and How Great is Our God. Louie described the awesome majesty of God and our relative insignificance through astronomic examples that current technology has revealed in the heavens... galaxies, solar systems, and individual stars. He describes God's greatness in words that many Christians have never pondered.

A couple of days ago, I ran across an article in Salon.com by Niall Stanage entitled "The search for an intellectual GOP presidential candidate." The article decries the poor intellectual state of the current field of major republican presidential candidates declaring one candidate intellectually unfit because he "doesn't believe in evolution."

I think Job would agree with Louie more than Niall. Job declares...

God stretches the northern sky over empty space
   and hangs the earth on nothing.
He wraps the rain in his thick clouds,
   and the clouds don’t burst with the weight.
He covers the face of the moon,
   shrouding it with his clouds.
He created the horizon when he separated the waters;
   he set the boundary between day and night.
The foundations of heaven tremble;
   they shudder at his rebuke.
By his power the sea grew calm.
   By his skill he crushed the great sea monster.
His Spirit made the heavens beautiful,
   and his power pierced the gliding serpent.
These are just the beginning of all that he does,
   merely a whisper of his power.
Who, then, can comprehend the thunder of his power?