We use the words “I wonder” to mean, “I’d like to know.” But it should mean, “I’d like to worship.”
The Lord begins His science class with the less complicated inanimate world (Job 38:4-38). I say this tongue-in-cheek. There’s nothing simple about gravity—the wonder of earth’s “foundations fastened” to nothing, God having “laid its cornerstone” on empty space (v 6). To the question, “What is gravity?” NASA.gov replies, “If we are to be honest, we do not know what gravity ‘is’ in any fundamental way.” There you have it. At the giddy heights of our scientific pride, we can’t answer the Lord’s most basic question any more than Job could. Only God knows, and He’s not telling! But He’s just begun asking His jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring questions. What is the proper reaction to God’s creative extravaganza? Not doubt. Not unbelief. It should be a delighted, Wow! Ask the angels, because they were there when God used His measuring tape and level to set everything in place, when He “stretched the line upon it” and “laid its cornerstone.” Here’s their response: “the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy” (vv 5-7; see 1:6). And speaking of real things that are invisible (for those who foolishly say, “If I can’t see it, I don’t believe it”), the invisible but very real God asks, “Who shut in the sea with doors…when I fixed My limit for it,…when I said, ‘This far you may come, but no farther, and here your proud waves must stop!’” (38:8-11)? With the gravitational pull of the moon and sun, God set controls on the tides to flush the seas without destroying the coasts. So Job, “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place…?” (v 12). The Lord paints a new sunrise each morning to remind us that every day is a fresh start. He means for you to enjoy every one!