One of the most interesting books in the Bible at least from my perspective is Job. Unlike all other books, it’s sort of a standalone. It’s time is not specifie

One of the most interesting books in the Bible at least from my perspective is Job. Unlike all other books, it’s sort of a standalone. It’s time is not specified and the place is not in a usual biblical setting. Most people know it as that one time God made a wager with Satan but the interesting part to me is when Job is taken on this whirlwind tour of creation and all complexity of the world is laid before him and he is made to see his smallness and insignificance contrasted to Gods greatness. If you want to give it a secular spin, you can think of God as the realisation this universe is far larger and far more complicated than any of us can even begin to comprehend. It is the realisation the lifetime of planets, of stars, let alone human life is but the blink of an eye on a cosmic scale. It is the realisation you mean nothing, you life and experience and love and knowledge and everything you hold dear is a meaningless blip, unnoticed and soon forgotten by a universe you simply cannot comprehend. You are, to quote the good book, dust, and unto dust you shall return. This is what contemplating God is. And living a righteous and good life in spite of this realisation of meaninglessness is what wisdom and godliness is.