Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5 / Luke 10:13-16
If nothing happens by coincidence, then it is only natural that we want to know what is the link between the various events and experiences of our lives.
We would want to know why such an event happened in our lives and why we had certain experiences.
Although we know that everything that has happened has a meaning and a purpose, yet we can be rather impatient to know the answers immediately.
Especially so when misfortune and tragedy happens. We won't be just asking for answers; we will be demanding for answers and demanding it furiously too.
For the character of Job in the 1st reading, he too was demanding for answers from God as misfortune and tragedy befell upon him one upon another, although he had insisted that he had not done anything wrong.
And this time God spoke. From the heart of the tempest, the Lord gave Job his answer. Yet, the answer was a series of question that began with "Have you ... ".
In the end, Job realized who he was and in his own words "I had better lay my finger on my lips. I will not speak again."
When we can realize what Job had realized, that God had a perfect plan for everything in our lives and that His ways are above our ways and His thoughts are above our thoughts, then we too in humility would lay our finger on our lips.
If we ever open our lips, then it will be to praise and thank the Lord. And may those who hear us glorify the Lord, be edified and do the same too.