Will the pride of your waves be informed here? (GB 38.1.8-11)
Biblical reflection by Giacomo Tessaro*
The ancient Israelites did not like the sea and were certainly not a people of navigators; For them, a modest lake like Genesaret's was a real sea like the Mediterranean. The sea was something incomprehensible like the monsters that lived there, but perhaps nothing is more incomprehensible than the human belief of knowing everything and being able to do everything. In this part of Job's book, God makes his servant understand that his attempts to understand him and understand the world are intended for the failure: who can perfectly know the universe if not the one who created it? We often come up with those who behave in a different way from us or perform something in any other way compared to how we would have done it; It is healthy thing to remember that we do not have the key to human behavior, but the one who created the ocean, the earth and the sky and everything that lives in them because all together praise the creator, without the arrogance to overcome his limits but enjoying the diversity of each creature.
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From the book of Job (GB 38.1.8-11)
The Lord began to say to Job in the middle of the Hurricane:
“Who closed the sea between two doors,
When he came out impetuously from the maternal breast,
When I dress it with clouds
and I bought it of a dark cloud,
When I fixed a limit to him,
I put it but two doors
saying: “So far you will come and no later
And here will the pride of your waves be informed "?"
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* Giacomo Tessaro, born in 1980, began to attend the Valdese Church and Methodist in 2008, after many years of adhesion to materialistic atheism and after a conversion to faith in God gained in his religious and philosophical readings. From the beginning of his Protestant attendance he has been in charge of preaching in his small Methodist community of Vintebbio, in the province of Vercelli, for which he also carries out pastoral care tasks. He has the passion of writing and translation and carries out the translator activity for the monthly Évangile et Liberté since 2010, as well as for the Gionata - Faith and homosexuality project.
