Who determined
creation’s measurements? (Job 38:5)
Priscilla,
Today you start your first class: “Calculus,” you tell me. The fun and games of orientation are over. The time has come to sit in the classroom and learn and learn and learn. Your Aunt Jen can tell you the story of how I made her take calculus her first semester. She’s still mad at me about that. She might have some tips for you.
“Out of the whirlwind,” God begins his confrontation with Job by asking, “Where were you when I determined creation’s measurements and stretched out its boundaries? …When the morning stars sang together and the heavenly host shouted for joy?” (Jb 38:1-7). I’m told Isaac Newton invented calculus as a way for measuring God’s creation. Yet, Newton knew better than anyone, that God’s creation remains immeasurable—“incalculable.”
I suppose we learn calculus because we bare the Image of God. Like Him, us humans like to calculate things—things like computer architecture. Isn’t that your major—Computer Science? Of course, God is always bigger than our calculation. God remains always and forever the Incalculable One.
Love, Papa
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