SPEAK OF HIS GREATNESS #2

Ps.145:6 – People will speak of the power of Your awesome acts,
And I will tell of Your greatness.

One of the things that changed in my life when I was touched by the power of God’s presence in 1994 was my view of the sovereignty of God. Before that time in my life I was man centered which led me to take responsibility for all of my successes. Sadly, I was also in the place to take the blame for all of my apparent failures. The touch of God opened my eyes to His greatness in regard to His sovereign power working in the world today. Of course He works through people, but left to our own resources things don’t always go so well (you can ask Nebucanezer about that). This is why Jesus was so adamant about prayer, hearing from God, and doing and saying the things that the Lord was saying and doing. Here is how Matthew Henry describes this.

“His works are wondrous in this lower world. The preservation, maintenance, and government of all the creatures, proclaim the Creator very great. When therefore we declare his greatness we must observe the unquestionable proofs of it, and must declare his mighty acts, speak of his wondrous works, the might of his terrible act. We must see God acting and working in all the affairs of this lower world. Various instruments are used, but in all events God is the supreme director; it is he that performs all things. Much of his power is seen in the operations of his providence (they are mighty acts, such as cannot be paralleled by the strength of any creature), and much of his justice—they are terrible acts, awful to saints, dreadful to sinners. These we should take all occasions to speak of, observing the finger of God, his hand, his arm, in all, that we may marvel.”

I love this, when the Lord wants to change the world He anoints an uneducated fisherman and an angry Pharisee. If He wants a king He anoints a teen aged shepherd.
If He wants a revival in the last days that will shake the world, He anoints a one eyed son of a slave from St. Mary’s Parrish in Louisiana. Yes, God is great and He does what He pleases, my job is to worship Him and somehow stay out of the way.