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God Does Great Things Series
Contributed by James Dina on Jul 14, 2020 (message contributor)
Summary: God’s wonders are supernatural acts beyond human understanding. Through extraordinary signs, the God of wonders demonstrates His limitless power, His inescapable presence, His divine protection, and His sovereign purposes.
"GOD DOES GREAT THINGS"
“Who does great things, and unsearchable, Marvelous things without number” (Job 5:9)
The Only Living God is a God of wonders. We see God's wonders in His miraculous acts and His mighty deeds, which were recorded in the Bible. Moses proclaimed: "Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?" (Exodus 15:11).
God's wonders proclaim His omnipotence, His ultimate authority over all. They declare His absolute control over events, people, and powers, and reveal His presence among His people. God performed wonders through Moses during the exodus from Egypt: “So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders” (Deuteronomy 26:8). The wonders of God lead to a sense of awe—there is no one like Him!
Through divine actions, the God of wonders reveals His character, His purposes, and His power on earth. In response, people who witness His miracles are filled with awe and wonder: “Look at the nations and watch and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told” (Habakkuk 1:5).
God’s wonders reveal His love and protection. The Lord led His people through the wilderness with a miraculous pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night (Exodus 13:21-22). He fed them with manna (Exodus 16: 1-34). He provided water from a rock (Exodus 17: 5-6). When Elijah was living by the brook of Cherith, the Lord had ravens come to feed him: "And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook" (1 kings 17:6). Through it all, the God of wonders showed His limitless care and protection.
The New Testament also gives reasons why God is called the God of wonders. In Matthew 21:15, the miracles of Jesus are called “wonderful things”. In Acts 5:12, Luke speaks of many “signs wonders” performed by the apostles.
God’s wonders are supernatural acts beyond human understanding. Through extraordinary signs, the God of wonders demonstrates His limitless power, His inescapable presence, His divine protection, and His sovereign purposes. In each instance, God’s wondrous works are designed to draw people to Himself. Through His most stunning of all miracles, the God of wonders revealed Himself in Jesus Christ, overcame the power of sin and death, and redeemed His people for all eternity (John 1:12-13).
These marvelous works by the God of wonders are unique displays of divine power that go far beyond human ability and power. Believers ought to seek God and lay their cause before Him. He is of absolute, infinite power, wisdom, and goodness.
God has done great things and shall do great things for ever. When God begins a work, He completes and carries it through (Isaiah 43:7). He does not only create and give a being: form and give proportion, but he gives beauty to His works (Deuteronomy 32:4). When God begins a work, he will also make an end; Nothing will take Him off or stay in the Midway (1 Samuel 3:12). He is the Author and finisher of our faith, the beginning, and the end, the first and last about our faith.
All His works are full of order and comeliness: He does His work exquisitely. Even His works, that man see as nothing and deformed, are full of orders. They will appear to us soon in beauty and comeliness. The Lord doesn’t need to engrave or subscribe His name to His works, His works proclaim His name.
The noble works of God answer the style or attributes of God. He is a great God, so are His works.
There are four things spoken in this verse (Job 5:9) of the works of God, which speak aloud: He does
? Great things,
? Unsearchable,
? Wonderful,
? Innumerable (Without Number).
No works of man or Angel are capable of those attributes stated above. The skill, knowledge and deepest understanding of men cannot perform such wonders. Though some men do deceive the fools and weak men in performing magic, yet no magic has ever made all men in the world to wonder.
We shall be discussing each attribute in a 4-part series, to enable us have a deep understanding of God’s wonder that all creatures and angels cannot comprehend.
1. HE DOES GREAT THINGS
“Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them. Full of splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever” (Psalm 111:2-3). His works are so great that those who know them cannot help but proclaim them publicly. When we look at the design of the world around us—the grandeur of the mountains, the power of the ocean, the beauty of the fields—we cannot help but praise our Maker.
