Job 10:8-9

8 Thine hands [yad] have made [`atsab] me and fashioned [`asah] me together [yachad] round about [cabiyb]; yet thou dost destroy [bala`] me.

9 Remember [zakar], I beseech thee, that thou hast made [`asah] me as the clay [chomer]; and wilt thou bring [shuwb] me into dust [`aphar] again [shuwb]? KJV-Interlinear

8 ' Thy hands fashioned and made me altogether, And wouldst Thou destroy me? 9 'Remember now, that Thou hast made me as clay; And wouldst Thou turn me into dust again? NASB

Job reviews the formation of the creature called man.

From our study in Genesis, we saw the four words used in the creation of Adam and Eve. The first word used is 'bara,' which means to make something out of nothing. The second word 'asah,' which is in our passage, means to create according to a pattern. The third word is 'yatsar,' and that means to form something out of something like a pot out of clay. The fourth word is 'banah,' and was used in the case of Eve, meaning to build, or to redesign, or to sculpt out of something. Eve was built, or sculpted out of Adam's rib.

In our passage a fifth word, 'atsab,' used in conjunction with the second word, 'asah,' is used to make it very clear that mans origin was from God, and from no other source or mechanism.

Man is not a product of random chance or evolution, but came from Gods very careful and painstaking care of invention and design.

The word 'atsab' mans to fabricate, to carve, to use great care, to take great pains, while fashioning a thing. When a sculptor takes a piece of wood or stone, and goes through his process of creating the image in his head, and transferring that image to the stone, he uses great care so as not to make any mistakes.

When a sculptor makes a mistake in the wood or stone, he has to start over, thus he takes great care. Really great care so as to not make any mistakes. This will save him both time and money.

This is the sense from which God approach the design, creation, and fashioning of humanity.

Furthermore, man was formed out of the dust of the earth. Man was not a product of some evolutionary slime, fish, lizard, or monkey. Dust is lifeless, and God formed life out of a lifeless material, a material, which is incapable of producing life in itself.

Job uses clay as his material to symbolize man. Clay cannot turn itself into a beautiful pot. It takes a real person to turn the clay and form it into something useful.

Job will go on to describe the various components of the body, which we will get to in the next couple of days, but for now, the point here is this.

If God would take so much time and painstaking effort in the design of mankind, would He then take His creation, His art, His prize work, His masterpiece, and simply throw it all away?

Job describes himself as a product of Gods work. Job was born to two parents naturally, but human parents did nothing more than perpetuate biological life, the clay pot. It was God who will place life into that pot and make it a functional vessel.

Likewise, in Jobs spiritual life, it is again God who makes the person. God provides the doctrine, the communication, the fellowship environment, the conduit of the human spirit, through which all spiritual information channels through and into the soul. And, it is God who forms or causes to form the spiritual content of the soul which we call many things. Things like the temple, our fortress, our home, and so forth.

So God took great pains in designing the human body and its biological life. He took great pains in designing the human soul and its human life. He took great pains in designing the human spirit and its eternal life. And, he took great pains in designing the spiritual life and growth process so that we could become 'complete.'

Now, the question. Would God do all of that, for you? Would He invent you, design you, raise you up, place thousands of years of history around you, and then just throw you away?

Do you not know just how important you are to God? Do you begin to grasp your importance?

Now lets add one more thing to this mix, the universe. God placed us all in this universe to live on this planet earth. He gave us all many trillions of stars and galaxies just to light the night sky as well as our curiosity.

Consider this for a moment. The Hubble telescope took a deep space picture a few years ago. The Hubble is in orbit at about 300 miles above the earth. Its deep space picture was like looking through the eye of a needle and its picture revealed thousands of galaxies at the far reaches of the universe. At least as far as we have been able to see with the current technology.

If you calculate the possible numbers of galaxies using that image as a statistical sample, then imagine a sphere around the earth at the orbital altitude of the Hubble, then calculate the surface of that sphere, in square inches, then multiply that by the area within the average size of the hole in a needle, and then multiply that by the estimated ten-thousand galaxies revealed in the picture taken by the Hubble telescope, and you will get a very large number. Something like nine-hundred sextillion galaxies.

Sextillion comes after quintillion, which comes after quadrillion, which comes after trillion, which comes after billion and so forth.

Now that gives you a number of deep space galaxies. Remember that the universe is three dimensional. So there is a lot of room between here and there, and probably a lot more room beyond.

God designed it all. God created it all.

Why?

He did it all, and much, much more, just for you. Are you worth it?

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