The truth which was here held up before Job is an inspiring one. We have to do with a God who does unsearchably marvellous things, not a few, but many, things, literally numberless.
I. Why then do we not expect marvellous things from God? (1) One reason is that we go too much by past experience. We often read our past experience in a most imperfect, careless, and unfair way, forgetting important parts and misinterpreting others. But even though we read it correctly, we should be wrong in forecasting our future by it. We have no right to measure God by our experience. (2) Some, again, think too much of law. They forget two things freedom and God. A spirit is something not included in the rigid system of law. A spirit is itself a cause, and originates. It produces. It makes a new start. That lies in the very nature of a moral being, and God is infinitely free. He deals with the soul in ways unsearchable. (3) Some think only of their own working, and not of God's. Feeling and knowing their own force, and not thinking of God's, men settle down into small expectations. They do not realise the possible by God's power and promise. (4) We fear to lessen our own diligence by the expectation of great and marvellous things being done for us by God.
II. Notice some reasons why we should cherish the expectation of the great and marvellous. (1) Such an expectation is essential to the fulness of the praying spirit. (2) It would raise our zeal in God's cause to live in expectation of the vast promises in His word being fulfilled any day. (3) Such a thought would fill us with courage and joy, and elevate us above present care, and toil, and sorrow.
J. Leckie, Sermons Preached at Ibrox,p. 51.