How being self-focused clouds our ideas about God.

In Job 32, Elihu speaks for the first time in the book. What strikes me about his words is how self-focused he is. The words "I" and "me" dominate his words. And twice he even admits that what he is about to speak is "my opinion". Even though he is young, he is impressed with his own wisdom. While it is true that Job's three friends who have already spoken often had wrong ideas about God, Elihu certainly doesn't do any better. 

What I take away from this section of Job is that knowing God is a matter of humility that recognizes that God is so big and so awesome that my little human mind can't ever totally figure Him out. There are always going to be things about God that remain a mystery just because He is God and I am not. That doesn't mean, however, that I can't know God quite intimately because He has revealed so much about Himself in His Word. But to do that I have to get my focus of of myself.