THERE is a mighty power in the souls of the saints, when in their extremities they feel they can address themselves to God as the Omnipotent Creator. Here they do so― “Thou art the God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them.” With Omnipotence for us, who can be against us?
Met as they now were in their divine mission to proclaim the Lordship of Christ, and demand of the nation repentance and submission to His name, by the hostile opposition of the lords who were then ruling in Israel, they appeal to God in His character of universal Lord, the God who made the universe and rules over all creatures; and if those who exercise authority in Israel were assuming a minatory aspect towards His servants, they now appeal from their tribunal to the throne of Him by whom kings rale and princes decree justice, and whence they derive authority and leave Him to judge between them. They were sure that the Judge of all the earth must do right and judge righteous judgment; and, moreover, if He were Maker of heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, He could give effect to His will by the power of His hand, and knowing this they might calmly confide in Him.
It was in this manner they prayed in “the times of old,” when, as in Jeremiah 32:17,17Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: (Jeremiah 32:17) they said, “Ah! Lord God, behold, Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and stretched-out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee.” And again, in Neh. 9:6,6Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. (Nehemiah 9:6) “Thou, even Thou, art LORD alone.
Thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are therein, the seas and all that is therein, and Thou preservest them all; and the host of heave] worshippeth Thee.” These were trying times for their fathers, and now they, the godly remnant so recently called out to witness for God and His Christ in the face of national defection and opposition call on God in the same solemn way laying hold on Him as the Creator and universal Lord; as when Hezekiah laid the threatenings of Sennacherib King of Assyria, before “the God of Israel” (Isa. 37:16, 1716O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth. 17Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God. (Isaiah 37:16‑17)), saying “Thou art the God, even Thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; Thou has made heaven and earth;” even so do till poor remnant in Israel, who have separated themselves to the name of Jesu from the apostate nation of the Jews now pray in deep distress, yet with the strength and confidence of faith.
Heaven, earth, and sea, with all that they contain, came forth into being obedient to the will and word of the omnipotent Creator; and if they obeyed His voice and did His will, He is able to do all things; and the will of man, let him be ever so high in place or authority ought not to be set against the will of God; and they were strong in faith giving glory to God because assured that they were doing His will, who created the heavens and the earth. Oh, what strength we gather in the time of trouble as we stand beneath the mighty dome of Night, and gaze aloft into the glorious heavens laden with the rich fruitage of the calm, sparkling stars; or walk forth on the summer eve and listen to the roll of the great ocean waves as they break on the rocky shore; or let the mind take in the thought that these waters girdle the great globe with all its teeming objects, animate and inanimate; and that He who called them into being by His word is still upholding them in being by His power, and that these are but pall of His works, for worlds on worlds, still veiled from human eyes by their un measurable distances, people the illimitable depths of immensity; and He is “God over all, blessed forever.” And the God of creation being the God of our salvation, we have nothing short of Omnipotence on our side: and Scripture in its first and last books, Genesis and the Apocalypse, gives special prominence to this great doctrine that on opening our Bibles, as, well as closing them, we may be reminded that we are “sons and daughters of the LORD Almighty.”