Greatness of God

The Finger Of God – Part 2

It is hard for us to imagine such power in a finger. The picture to the left says it all. There the point is that God can cause the sun to set with His finger of omnipotence easier than we can submerge a beach ball. Don’t reference or look at your own finger, that scrawny boney little thing, for that is like lighting a candle to the sun. God has infinitely more power in one finger than all of the nuclear weapons and bombs in the world going off at once. Pale and impotent stuff compared to the omnipotent God.

Remember the words of Isaiah 40:15,17–

“Behold, the nations are alike a drop from a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales; behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust. All the nations are as nothing before Him, they are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.”

The Finger Of God – Part 1

I am quite sure that we have all seen it at one time or another. Maybe some of you have seen it in person. It is the fresco in the Sistine Chapel in Rome by Michelangelo where God has reached out and touched the finger of Adam. God’s powerful arm is outstretched, and yet God is delicately touching man with His Divine finger as man becomes a living soul.

Michelangelo captured it as no one before or since – the omnipotence of Almighty God touching man, and the innocence of man touching God. Yes, those two fingertips touching each other – the Creator imparting life and the creature in his newness of life responding to God. Oh the profundity and yet simplicity, the distance and yet intimacy, the power and yet weakness of it all. The Divine finger and the human finger says it all. The scene somehow both satisfies reason and calls for faith.

Of God – Nations – Insects – Dwarfs

Nations Compared To God – Nothing But Flies And Bees

Sometimes God speaks to us in truths that are both bitter and sweet at the same time. He speaks to us in terms of both warning and comfort simultaneously. He has an unequaled knack in doing that throughout His Word. We hear Him speaking that exact way in Isaiah 7:18 where He says through the prophet Isaiah to King Ahaz of Judah, “And it will come about in that day, that the Lord will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.”

We had seen the Biblical Jesus walk into our church. Christianity was no longer a three-point sermon. The Savior was no longer a flannel-graph, Sunday School Jesus. Now in the days ahead, even as God had stopped the sun in the days of Joshua, He was about to stop our hearts and increase the power of Spirit River that would be revealed to me as I had never seen or known. In His mercy, God puts a veil between us and what the future will bring. We would run away from it if we saw it all at once, both the highs and the lows that we have to go through to get to the highs.

When it comes to what God excelled in and was good at, namely, His GREATNESS, I had at most when it came right down to it, a very vague and hazy concept of the greatness of God. As He had in that moment spoken to me about His EXCELLENT greatness, He then graciously and powerfully also spoke to me about His excellent GREATNESS. He simply said to me:

“I MAGNIFY EVERYTHING I DO, FOR I AM THE GOD OF MAGNIFICENCE.”