Infinite Greatness Unveiled: Exploring His Power, Wisdom, and Love, Part Ifeatured

1. 1. Our sun, an average star out of the more than 200 billion trillion stars in the universe, is so powerful, yet only a very small percentage of its solar energy reaches the earth, perhaps less than 0.00000005 %. But guess what? That small fraction is enough to heat the earth to sustain life, charge the nearly 93 billion solar panels worldwide today, and provide light for the estimated three trillion plants.   Wow. When I think about this, all I can say is, “Glory be to God.” 
   2.  The power delegated to angels: “And that night an angel of Jehovah went out and struck the Assyrians’ camp, a hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when they rose early in the morning, all of them were corpses, dead” (2 Kings 19:35).  Notice that this portion refers to “an angel,” that is, ONE angel performed such a feat that night at God’s command.    For comparison, the first atomic bomb ever deployed against humanity occurred on August 6th, 1945, in the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and is estimated to have killed 80,000 people immediately.
   3. Think about how much persecution has been toward the church through the ages.   Since the inception of the church more than 2,000 years ago, different nations, emperors, organized religions, and other entities have persecuted, martyred, and tried to stop and destroy the church (please refer to “Foxe’s Book of Martyr’s,”  by John Foxe).   Today’s leftist political ideology pushes a radical anti-Christian agenda that is very obvious to everyone who is paying attention.  But despite so much opposition, the church continues to flourish!  God’s power is definitely behind this preservation of the church. 
   4. Here’s another manifestation of God’s power:  All of God’s children, by possessing His Life, also have His power, at least a small portion, that expresses different functions.   The Apostle Paul describes this in Ephesians 4:11-12: “And He Himself gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as shepherds and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of Christ.”  All these functions, including the miraculous ones, are for the sole purpose of building up the Body of Christ. 

God’s power also goes hand in hand with His wisdom in creating the trillions of stars and every created thing, seen and unseen.  He likely knows the names of ALL the stars, their course, their composition, and their own “why”.   For my four years of medical school, I was expected to memorize thousands of new medical words each year, that were all new to me.  By God’s grace, I was able to do this!  But can you imagine God’s capacity to keep track of the vast number of things he created and think about the millions and millions of other Christians that pray personal, intimate prayers unto Him, and He cares for all of humanity!

Interestingly, inventors of cars and other machinery started developing these technologies in the 1800s, unaware that they were replicating the nano-technological machinery found even in simple bacteria that has existed for millennia.  It is almost as if God’s creative powers are ingrained in our minds, and inventors recreate what God conceived long ago.