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“The pillars of heaven tremble
And are astonished at His rebuke.
He stilleth the sea with His power....
By His Spirit the heavens are beauty;
His hand hath pierced the gliding serpent.
Lo, these are but the outskirts of His ways:
And how small a whisper do we hear of Him!
But the thunder of His power who can understand?”
Job 26:7-10
;
26:11-14
, R.V.,
margin.
“The Lord hath His way in the whirlwind and in the storm,
And the clouds are the dust of His feet.”.
The mighty power that works through all nature and sustains all
things is not, as some men of science claim, merely an all-pervading
principle, an actuating energy. God is a spirit; yet He is a personal
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being, for man was made in His image. As a personal being, God
has revealed Himself in His Son. Jesus, the outshining of the Father’s
glory, “and the express image of His person” (
Hebrews 1:3
), was on
earth found in fashion as a man. As a personal Savior He came to
the world. As a personal Savior He ascended on high. As a personal
Savior He intercedes in the heavenly courts. Before the throne of God
in our behalf ministers “One like the Son of man.”
Daniel 7:13
.
The apostle Paul, writing by the Holy Spirit, declares of Christ
that “all things have been created through Him, and unto Him; and He
is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.”
Colossians
1:16, 17
, R.V., margin. The hand that sustains the worlds in space, the
hand that holds in their orderly arrangement and tireless activity all
things throughout the universe of God, is the hand that was nailed to
the cross for us.
The greatness of God is to us incomprehensible. “The Lord’s
throne is in heaven” (
Psalm 11:4
); yet by His Spirit He is everywhere
present. He has an intimate knowledge of, and a personal interest in,
all the works of His hand.