Job knows Immanence and Transcendence

The texts in the Roman Catholic Lectionary today cause reflection on both the immanence and transcendence of the Divine. Job has experience of the transcendent God who creates and changes the face of the earth and the immanent God who speaks personally to his faithful child. The psalmist praises the inescapable nature of the Divine. It is difficult to think of events and situations where the Divine Presence cannot be sensed or appreciated if only through the exercise of “breath awareness”. We resonate with Job that understanding of both our insignificance in the eternal infinite universe and personal intimacy with the Divine through the indwelling Spirit. Luke describes the consequences likely to befall those who rejected the evidence as Jesus made His journey to Jerusalem.