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Job 37:23
23 Touching the Almighty [Shadday], we cannot find him out [matsa']: he is excellent [saggiy'] in power [koach], and in judgment [mishpat], and in plenty [rob] of justice [tsadaqah]: he will not afflict [`anah]. KJV-Interlinear
23 'The Almighty — we cannot find Him; He is exalted in power; And He will not do violence to justice and abundant righteousness. NASB
God is the almighty. He is infinite in all of his attributes. He is so far beyond us, that no created being can come near Him in ability, knowledge, or wisdom.
And certainly no created being can match God in His perfect dealings with all living things.
Gods point of contact with man is through His perfect righteousness, and His perfect justice.
Gods righteousness means He is sinless perfection. Justice in the action of cleansing or washing thoroughly, anything that is tainted, flawed and imperfect. Gods justice means that He maintains perfect function in His relationship with anything that is less than perfect.
Righteousness plus justice equals holiness. Holiness plus love equals grace. Love is the content of Bible doctrine.
Imperfect man meets God initially at the Cross through Gods righteousness and justice. Christ is the reality of the Cross, and Christ is mans only point of contact with God. Christ is the living word and the written word of God.
God does not abuse His power, His righteousness, or His justice. God deals with all of creation with the same consistency of His perfection. God is immutable. He is the same today as He was in Job's day.
Your relationship with God is the same that Elihu or Job had.
Through faith in Christ, Gods righteousness and justice (the cross), cleanses us and rebirths us into a new life. Through doctrine, following salvation, Gods love (scriptures), carries us into a new and higher realm of greater grace called spiritual maturity.
Apart from this (faith and doctrine), man cannot find God, discover God, or even invent a new god.
And, apart from God, man will never find anyone or anything that is as fair and consistent in dealing with the many aspects of life.
