Guiding Arcturus

“Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?” Job 38:32b (KJV) I felt like I had missed something. I needed to go back to the library and find the astronomy book again. I had researched the star groupings of Pleiades and Orion that God had pointed out to Job (in Job 38:31), but I had no idea what I had missed. I thumbed through pages, searching chapter headings. Then I saw it: Arcturus. We can find Arcturus by locating the first bright star off the handle of the Big Dipper. Arcturus (also called “the Bear” in the NIV) is 23 times the size of our sun (we can fit nearly a million earths into our sun), and it is 37 light years away. The most amazing fact is that it is one of the fastest moving stars in our Milky Way galaxy and was headed straight for our planetary system! This would not be good; yet, over the years, its forward speed slowed and its sideways speed picked up, causing it to miss us. Have you ever felt like your life was out of control? Job went through great loss as Satan plotted to cause him to curse God to His face. God even allowed Satan to touch Job’s body with suffering. Satan wanted God to know that no person would ever simply love Him for Himself, but only for what humanity could get from Him. After God revealed Himself through His creation, Job said, “My ears had heard of you, but now my eyes have seen you” (Job 42:5, NIV). God, in all of His magnificence and power, loved Job. He hoped Job would love Him back, even when things were difficult. As we look at what God made, we can ask ourselves: is He worthy of our love? Lord, open my eyes so I can see who You really are. I want to love You no matter what—not because of what You give me, but because You are You. – Sue Carlisle   Council Fire is a collaboration with Intertribal Life Ministries and Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. The Council Fire Daily Devotional Book Set is available on the Intertribal Life Ministries website. Learn more about Council Fire at councilfire365.org