God's Response to Job

The Lord’s answer to Job is supposed to feel overwhelming. It’s like being hit by a water cannon that knocks us to the ground. So why does God go full water cannon on Job? It’s because Job sees his problems as being bigger than God (as if God is not all powerful). It’s because Job thinks that if he can’t understand why God would do something then there must not be a good reason (as if God is not all knowing). It’s because Job thinks God must be busy somewhere else and must have missed him (as if God is not omnipresent). And so Job needs a water cannon to understand just how big our God is. He needs the water canon to understand just how small his problems are in comparison to God... and sometimes we need this water canon too.