Job 37:23. “Touching the Almighty, we cannot find Him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.” THE WORKS OF GOD.
Evidence of power under control disturbs the common man. There is no way for him to understand the power that is in God's hand. Our limitations in certain times fill men's hearts with fear. The sight of lightening, the sound of thunder, are reminders God is near. The coming and going of seasons are deliberate yearly events. All that we see of God around us awakens in us a sense Of our own weakness and limitations, there is a design unable to miss -
By the gentleness of a shower or uncontrolled storms– God is behind all this.
As the cold approaches, in some animals a message God planted in their nature - Signals it is time for them to seek a suitable winter shelter To stay in a condition of sleep, a state we call hibernation - That they may pass the months of cold winter in the way God designed for protection. The birds lift off and travel thousands of miles in a remarkable formation - Until they reach the place God arranged with astounding uncanny precision. His wonderful works making plain to sensible man this conclusion. God is in control of His creation – only man is in a state of confusion.
The course of unseen streams coursing their way above us in the sky - Move questioning, sincere men and women to stop and wonder why The tornadoes and hurricanes come in from the south - Uncontrollable, unstoppable – following an unpredictable route - Stronger than mans' urgent attempts its power to withstand: Able to bring to nothing many of the works of man's hands. The cold winds with winter snows come rushing from the north - And we wonder at the works of God in all their unstoppable force.
All things God worked with the power of His word - Functions in the way He chose, just as they should. But man, who God formed with His hands from the dust of the ground, And placed His image in them that there might be found - A response, not just of action and nature, but of choice - To love and share fellowship with God and use their voice In expressions of praise and genuine joy – but instead - Men rebelled, and in conscious decision, is spiritually dead.
`”Sitting here in the darkness, Father, reading and writing with a little flashlight, helps me understand in a little way, what was lost when man sinned. Others around are unconscious of me. There is no connection; no evidence of communication. Use me, O God, I pray, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”