'If you could invite anyone in history alive or dead to dinner, who would you invite?'
This question is sometimes used as an idle conversation starter.
Maybe you have day-dreamed about having a conversation with a favourite sporting hero or musician or perhaps someone who has inspired you such as Nelson Mandela or Winston Churchill?
Job sat down after his life had fallen apart and speaks to his friends. What he most wants, he says, is to speak to God about what has happened.
'But I would speak to the Almighty and I desire to argue my case with God' (Job 13:3)
At which point I made a note in the margin of my Bible: 'doesn't everyone?'
The trouble was at the time Job was complaining God didn't have a human face, he didn't have ears or eyes. Job understood God to be a surpreme being worthy of worship but so completely above the human condition, Job would not be able to have a conversation with him,
Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as humans see?' (Job 10:4).
You can hear Job's longing for an accessible God. So I wrote another note in the margin of my Bible: 'one day Job's God will have eyes, one day he will 'see as humans see'. One day thousands of years forward from Job and at least 2000 years before our time, God did indeed step into our world.
'And the Word became flesh and lived among us' (John 1:14) There is possibly no more shocking statement in the entire Bible. God, the Almighty, the Creator, Eternal, Invisible, Incomprehensible, Indescribable became a human being.
Praise God today that God made himself accessible in human form. Praise him because he still is accessible. There is nothing to stop you talking to God about whatever concerns you today.
Sheila Bridge
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