God In Everything # 2 (and others)

God In Everything # 2 (and others)

In a word, the spiritual mind sees God in everything. The worm, the whale, and the tempest, all are instruments in His hand. The most insignificant, as well as the most splendid agents, further His ends. The east wind would not have proved effectual, though it had been ever so vehement, had not the worm and a scorching east wind could be joint agents in doing a work of God? Yet so it was! Great and small are only terms in use among men, and cannot apply to Him "who stoops down to behold the things that are in heaven," as well as "the things that are on earth." They are all alike to Him "who sits on the circle of the earth." Jehovah can count the number of the stars, and while He does so, He can take knowledge of a falling sparrow. He can make the whirlwind and His chariot, and a broken heart His dwelling place. Nothing is great or small with God.

The believer, therefore, must not look upon anything as ordinary, for God is in everything. True, he may have to pass through the same circumstances - to meet the same trials - to encounter the same reverses as other men; but he must not meet them in the same way, nor interpret them on the same principle; nor do they convey the same report to his ear. He should hear the voice of God, and heed His message, in the most trifling as well as in the most momentous occurrence of the day. The disobedience of a child, or the loss of an estate, or the death of a friend, should all be regarded as divine messengers to his soul.

So also, when we look around in the world, we should see God is in everything. The overturning of thrones, the crashing of empires, the famine, the pestilence, and every event that occurs among nations, exhibit traces of the hand of God, and utter a voice for the ear of man. The devil will seek to rob the Christians of the real sweetness of this thought; he will tempt him to think that, at least, the commonplace circumstances of everyday life exhibit nothing extraordinary, but only such as happen to other men. But we must not yield to him in this. We must start on our course every morning, with this truth vividly impressed on our mind - God is in everything! The sun that rolls along the heavens in splendid brilliancy, the worm that crawls along the path, have both alike been prepared of God, and, moreover, could both alike cooperate in the development of His unsearchable designs.

I would observe, in conclusion, that the only one who walked in the abiding remembrance of the above precious and important truth, was our blessed Master. He saw His Father's hand and heard the Father's voice in everything. This appears preeminently in the season of the deepest sorrow. He came forth from the garden of Gethsemane with those memorable words, "The cup which my Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?" thus recognizing in the fullest manner, that God is in everything.

~C. H. Mackintosh~

(The End)
__________________________

God's Most Comforting Attribute!

"And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose!" (Romans 8:28).

There is no attribute more comforting to His children than that of God's sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that sovereignty has ordained their afflictions, that sovereignty overrules them, and that sovereignty will sanctify them all. 

There is nothing for which the children of God ought more earnestly to contend, then the doctrine of their Master ruling over all creation, the kingship of God over all the works of His own hand, the throne of God, and His right to reign upon that throne.

"Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases!" (Psalm 115:3).

"All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as He pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth." (Daniel 4:35).

"Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns!" (Revelation 19:6).

"To be God and sovereign are inseparable!" (Stephen Charnock).

"Sovereignty characterizes the whole being of God. He is sovereign in all His attributes!" (A. W. Pink).

"God has sovereign right to dispose of us as He pleases. We ought to acquiesce in all that God does with us and to us." (William Carey).

~Charles Spurgeon~