What is man that you make so much of him?

Job cried out in the midst of his emotional and physical pain, feeling God had painted a bullseye on his back (7:17ff).

"What is man that you make so much of him,
  that you give him so much attention,
    that you examine him every morning and test him every moment?
      Will you never look away from me, even for an instant? ...
        Why have you made me your target? ...
          Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins?"

This question is not answered for Job, though we are able to glean the answer from other settings.

In Psalm 103:11-12, love and sin, rather forgiveness, are inseparably connected -
  because God loves us as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    He finds a way to separate, to remove, our sins from us as far as the east is from the west.

In John 3:16-19, we learn God loved the world so much that, in His only Son Jesus Christ,
  He made a way for us to not perish but have eternal life,
    for us to be delivered from the condemnation that is the natural result of our sin,
      to provide light and truth to rescue and redeem us from our darkness.

Apart from love, there is no concern for sin, disobedience, darkness ...

But because God's love for us is so immense,
  He could not overlook our sins.
    He could not abide that we should die in our sins.
      He made us alive with Christ, even through we were dead in our transgressions,
        saving us by His grace (Ephesians 2:1-10).

Thank You, God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for such a
  boundless,
    amazing,
      all-consuming,
        self-sacrificing
          love.

March 3, 2012