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Job 40:11 "Pour forth the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone that is proud, and abase him."

 

This is part of God's answer to Job. God is telling Job that when Job is able to clothe himself in glory and majesty; and to chastise the proud, tread down the wicked, and bind them in the world below, then will God recognize Job as able to bring his own salvation. (Job 40:10-14). Then would Job be deserving of having his "fault-finding" questions answered ("Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty?" God asks Job. (Job 40:2)).

 

Thank God that He is God and that there is no other! I think at times we all have wished that we could pour forth the overflowings of our anger on the proud and the wicked. The thing is, though, as righteous as our anger may be, we do not know the hearts and minds of those we would be abasing. Some of them may very well not be worthy of our anger and punishment. And we should remember that others may well look on us, rightly or wrongly, as the proud and the wicked, deserving to be brought low.

 

When I catch myself wondering why God is not raining down justice on those I consider deserving of it, I will remember this reprimand, and try to think of all the things I have done in my life for which I deserved to be brought low, but was not because of His mercy. When I face God's justice, it will bring to light anything of which I have not repented, so better to do it now, rather than be caught flat-footed and brought low myself in the overflowing of His anger that I was so anxious to have fall on others.