And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. (Gen 1:3)
Is anything too hard for the Lord? (Gen 18:14)
Mightier than the thunder of the great waters, mightier than the breakers of the sea — the Lord on high is mighty. (Ps 93:4)
Lord God Almighty, let us not merely comprehend that You can do many things. Let us see Your power at work around us. Grant us confidence as we live life that You can do anything. Give us faith to act on Your mighty power, and let us remember that the immensity of Your power makes us weaker than babes in Your sight.
It is a marvelous thing to sit and look on something as powerful as Niagara Falls, to be confronted with something before which we are helpless. We are reminded quickly of our own weakness. It is not that we humans are completely powerless creatures, for we have the power to harness the power the Falls produces. It is that, strong as we think we might be, the Falls confronts us with the fact that there are simply some things we cannot do. Nature can humble us. When a hurricane strikes the coast, people flee. Some things we cannot control.
But God has made Niagara Falls, and God has made the ocean, and the imparted power which they have is nothing to God. Nature has limited power. Humanity has limited power. God has all power. He is the Almighty. He can snap His fingers and scatter stars across the sky. He can cure a child from an incurable disease. He can speak a word and bring a billion-man army to its knees. He can raise a Savior from the grave. Such is the power of God.
Is there something you think He cannot do? Then your God is not the God of the Bible, for the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is God Almighty. Job was right to say, “I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted” (Jb 42:2). To deny the miraculous is to deny the Almighty. He created this world. He can do with it as He pleases. He also gave you your life. He can do with it as He pleases.
When we live as if the only forces on Earth are physical, political, economic, or cultural, we deny the Almighty. When we mentally strip the power of God from history, we also strip Him from our lives as well. We forget that He controls our destiny, that He works in history, that He hears prayer and can actually do something about it.
To think that our circumstances are beyond the hand of God is foolheartedness. He can handle the universe, and He can handle what you are going through. In this sense the power of God is a great comfort.
It is also humbling. Presidents and wealthy men think themselves powerful. They do not understand power. If they did, they would humble themselves before it. And so would we.
If we saw it.
