The Power Of God # 2

 The Power Of God # 2

"Lo, these are parts of His ways: but how little a portion is heard of Him? but the thunder of His power who can understand?" (Job 26:14). Who is able to count all the monuments of His power? Even that which is displayed of His might in the visible creation is utterly beyond our powers of conception, still less are we able to conceive of omnipotence itself. There is infinitely more power lodged in the nature of God than is expressed in all His works.

"Parts of His ways" we behold in creation, providence, redemption, but only a "little part" of His might is seen in them. Remarkably is this brought out, "And  there was no hiding of His powers" (Habakkuk 3:4). It is scarcely possible to imagine anything moe grandiose than the imagery of this whole chapter, yet nothing in it surpasses the nobility of this statement. The prophet (in vision) beheld the mighty God scattering the hills and overturning the mountains, which one would think afforded an amazing demonstration of His power. Nay, says our verse, that is rather the "hiding" than the displaying of His power. What is meant? This: so inconceivable, so immense, so uncontrollable is the power of Deity, that the fearful convulsions which He works in nature conceal, more than they reveal, of His infinite might!

It is very beautiful to link together the following passages:

He "treads upon the waves of the sea" (Job 9:8) which expresses God's uncontrollable power.

"He walks in the circuit of Heaven" (Job 22:14), which tells of the immensity of His presence.

He "walks upon the wings of the wind" (Psalm 104:3), which signifies the amazing swiftness of His operations. 

Let us now consider God's power in CREATION. "The heavens are Yours, and the earth is Yours, everything in the world is Yours - You created it all. You created north and south (Psalm 89:11). Before man  can work he must have both tools and materials - btu God began with nothing, and by His Word alone out of nothing made all things. The intellect cannot grasp it. "God spoke, and it was done; He commanded and it stood fast" (Psalm 33:9). Primeval matter heard His voice. "God said, Let there be ... and it was so" (Genesis 1). Well may we exclaim, "You have a strong arm; Your hand is mighty, Your right hand is exalted" (Psalm 89:13).

"Who that looks upward to the midnight sky, and , with an eye of reason, beholds its rolling wonders; who can forbear inquiring: "Of what were their mighty orbs formed?" Amazing to relate, they were produced without materials. They sprang from emptiness itself. The stately fabric of universal nature emerged out of nothing. How was it all connected into one finely-proportioned and nobly finished structure?  The Lord merely spoke and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born." (Psalm 33;6).

~A. W. Pink~

(continued with # 3)