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Job 37:18 "Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?"

 

So much of the Book of Job is recognition of God's singular and boundless might and power. Of course no one can spread out the skies as God does! No creature of any kind can do what God does. He alone has all the power, He alone is the Creator, anything and everything that exists comes from Him, and would cease to exist immediately without His Will keeping it in being.

 

Last night I read Luisa Piccarreta's Book of Heaven entry from November 11th, 1922, in which Jesus says "I hold all things as though in the palm of my hand ... in creating man ... I created all the intelligences and each thought, all the words, the works, the steps, and all the rest of man, from the first to the last who will exist. ... Since man would not be able to do it without Me, how could I not know it, and also know their number? Therefore, all the operating of creatures swims inside my Will[.] ... [However,] I wanted to endow him with freedom. I was free - free was he also to be. ... [So] each act of creature, even one thought, has its origin ... [i]n the Sanctity of My Will. With this difference: that if man wants, he can do that same thought, word, etc., well or badly; he can make it holy or evil." (Book of Heaven, Volume 14, November 11, 1922).

 

When I read this, I thought "Of course! God created our intelligence, our thoughts, our acts, how could it be any other way?" The acts that we can do, that is, all possible acts, were created by God. All that is possible comes from Him. We are able to think because He created our intelligence in His image. We can use that intelligence well or badly, but either way it came from Him. The same is true for our words and our actions, we would not be capable of anything without His will (which He says is "grieved in seeing the acts of many ... changed into deadly acts for me and them.")

 

Absolutely everything comes from God and swims in His will at all times. Through sin, we can and do cause dysfunction, even death, grieving His Will, but we can never take anything out of His Will, because nothing exists outside of His Will. So Elihu is right, no one can spread out the skies, but it goes much further than that. We can do nothing at all without Him. He sustains our existence and all our acts, even in sin. If He ceased to, we would cease all together. It is very humbling to realize this, but also immensely freeing. We can surrender to Him, asking Him to guide us in all our thoughts and actions, repenting of and renouncing the ones that cause us to stumble, and by doing so console both ourselves and our God and help build His Kingdom, the Kingdom of the Divine Will.