God of All Creation

“Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.” (Psalm 95:1-5)

Surely, our God is worthy of all of our worship and praise, for there is nothing that He does not control! He hand is in the deep places of the earth, the hills, and the sea.  In other words, He is the God of all creation!

To understand the meaning of what the psalmist is suggesting, we need to look at the time in which this psalm was written.  Each culture had their own gods, with their own specific domains.

In 1 Kings 20, the king of Syria came out against the king of Israel, but was thoroughly defeated.  Meanwhile, the officials of the king of Aram advised him, "Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they were too strong for us. But if we fight them on the plains, surely we will be stronger than they.” (1 Kings 20:23)

How did God respond?  “The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, This is what the LORD says: Because the Arameans think the LORD is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the LORD.” (1 Kings 20:28)

Do we do the same thing today?  Do we limit God's power based upon something or someone other than God?  Too often, we think of God as though He is human, and we try to conform Him to the same limitations that we have.  But God is God!  He who created the worlds and all of the starry host is not limited in any way, nor is He manipulated by our actions, or even lack of actions.

We have lost our perspective of God. In our age of great scientific discoveries, we think we no longer have need for God, or at least have limited His power. In doing so, we have stripped Him of His Sovereignty; His absolute power over all things.

For example, when was the last time you heard someone refer to natural disasters as "acts of God?"  We resist the idea that God would use natural disasters because the god of the 21st century is only a god of love. Yes, God is a God of love, but that also means that He is a God of justice.  Just as Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by the hand of God, and the world was destroyed by a great flood in the time of Noah, so God uses the same means in our day to wake up His children and to cause people to turn to Him.

The disciples marveled at Jesus when He rebuked the winds of the storm on the Sea of Galilee as they were wildly tossed about. As the God of all creation, the winds, the lightening, and all other natural forces are never out of God's control. Every flash of lightning strikes exactly where He decides it will strike.

Let’s return to the God of all creation, and pray that we will never forget the power and might of the Creator God. This, my friend, is the God we love and serve.  The God who hung the stars and planets in space.  He is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent (all powerful, all knowing, and present everywhere).  Can we not trust Him completely?

“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.” (Isaiah 40:28)

 

 "God of Wonders" By Third Day

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