The Amazing and Marvelous Great Works of God: He Storms the Impregnable, Devises the Improbable, Performs the Impossible

God is so totally other (to say the very least). And the heavens declare it. There is none like Him. Indeed, the Prophet Isaiah later pens God’s Words in Isaiah 46:8-10 (NIV): “Remember this, fix it in mind, take it to heart, you rebels. Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.” God is totally Unique, totally Other. He is Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent. Proof of His Uniqueness (of course besides creation) includes His full and complete knowledge of the future and of every human being whom He knit together in their mother’s wombs. Nothing takes Him by surprise and His ability knows no end. He creates ex-nihilo (out of nothing). He merely speaks and it is so. And, to be sure, an infinite host of other things. We will spend all eternity discovering more and more of Him and never come to the end.

When righteous Job was struggling with the extreme calamities that had befallen Him, God responds with these words found in Job 38:1-3 (NIV): “Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said: “Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.” And God begins asking Job a litany of questions all of which, of course, he had no idea how to answer.  

It would appear from Adam and Eve on, mankind has had a great desire to be like God – or at least to be their own God - and we are so not. We want to be large and in charge and in control – especially of our own lives - and He tells us to remember our positions – and it is not on God’s Throne, BTW. He is the Creator God and we are but His creation. When He begins to question righteous Job, God begins His inquiries with “Where were you when I …?” And when God begins describing some of His creation Job brilliantly became a mute. He had no answers. Indeed, he ends with: “Then Job replied to the LORD: ‘I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. ‘You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.’ My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.’” Job 42:1-6 (NIV)

God can do all things and no plan of His can be thwarted. He is the One that makes known the end from the beginning, from ancient times what is yet to come. His purposes will stand and He does all that He pleases. He is God and there is no other. And He is good.