 God is fierce...and that is why I love him.
If he were tame, predictable, always the same, boring, dull, and always giving in to what I want instead of what is best for me...things would be bad. How do I know what is best for me? A finite small creature with selfish tendencies and only so much comprehension of the world?
He's the God who made the tallest and most formidable mountain in the world, yet gently and softly sculpts the smallest flower. He can't fit into the boxes we try to build around him- and he laughs at our ultimatums.
He's infuritating, and deafening, and silent, and marvelous, and all of those things rolled up into one. He isn't human, and I'm glad I can't control or predict what will come up next.
And despite all of these things, and all of the things that we are...he loves us. Becuase He can and because He wants to. And because He is good. Everything that is good comes from Him. Not because we earned it.
Maybe all that stuff we think is important all the time really isn't.
Job 38: 4-19
"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone- while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?
"Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place, when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt'?
"Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it? The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment. The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.
"Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.
"What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?"
Job really didn't stand a chance to all of that. All that stuff that was so important to him and "unjust" just fell away at the amazingness of God.
God is awesome.
Enough said. | 
