God’s greatness is seen over time in the many miraculous feats which demonstrate his almighty power. We can list a litany of His miracles as seen by millions over time but for those who did not see these miracles of past, I draw your attention to the miracles each day.

Every normal person has 6 basic senses, Touch, Taste, Sight, Seeing, Tasting and Hearing. These basic senses are each miracles and until your senses are threatened then it is difficult to understand how intricate they are. In His endless wisdom God gave us these senses that filter only as much as is necessary and when they don’t, we know that something is wrong.

I observe nature in its fullness, the great balance between flora and fauna and the intricacies with which they have been made. I see the cellular significance of microbe and the enormity that cells group together to form organisms as large as the sea’s largest, blue whale and earth’s largest dweller, the elephant. I observe how these huge organisms build large, strong muscles from the simplest of matter ingested, while miniature organisms by comparison feed on the dead carcasses of fallen giants to scavenge the earth.

God in His greatness has made all things possible and in the words of a childhood favorite written by Cecil F Alexander and published in 1848

o    Refrain:
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful:
The Lord God made them all.
2.    Each little flow’r that opens,
Each little bird that sings,
He made their glowing colors,
He made their tiny wings.
3.    The purple-headed mountains,
The river running by,
The sunset and the morning
That brightens up the sky.
4.    The cold wind in the winter,
The pleasant summer sun,
The ripe fruits in the garden,
He made them every one.
5.    The tall trees in the greenwood,
The meadows where we play,
The rushes by the water,
To gather every day.
6.    He gave us eyes to see them,
And lips that we might tell
How great is God Almighty,
Who has made all things well.


I cannot narrow God’s greatness to any one thing or group of things since everything around me is evidence of His greatness. When the Lord described to Job all the things that He had done to ensure that the earth be as we know it, He outlined just a small portion of its vastness, yet enough to compel the realization of greatness. Job 38.

When I recently lost my sight and it gradually came back, first in black and white only and eventually some color, I recognized the importance of color to detail and that color comprises many mixtures of the primary colors to give these thousands of variations. The absence of red vision meant the absence of an enormous array of other colors.

In my praise and salute to the Lord Almighty for His greatness, I remember the quotation from a bible verse

1 John 4:4
4Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

 

 

Greater Is He That Is In You   God made the mountains, the valleys, the trees Rivers and lakes, the ponds and the seas Every fowl of the air flying low or high Animals wild and those that draw nigh The Lord made creatures, too small for us to see Eyes can’t perceive them but they’re vital to our ecology Really large and more complex organisms that dwarfs us all I see a whale or an elephant then I feel really small So for all this vastness and variety He is greater than any other can be Evil tries to invade us as we walk the earth The spirits of Satan wish to inflate their sinful worth Human kind who never let the Savior in Are vulnerable to this evil and the world of sin They are lured into a new vastness of dark gloom It can attract with glitz, money and lust in its costume Superficial pleasures and fleeting happiness It’s easy to be taken in without God’s righteousness Nothing defeats the darkness but the light Your invitation to the Lord will yield His might Overcoming the Evils of the world to free you from sin Ultimately you’ll be saved cause Greater is He That Is Within

 

This is a reminder that once we accept the Lord Jesus into our lives then we have access to all things possible. I believe that the comparison of the man within and the man in the world is not only you with Jesus and you without but that you without Jesus might mean the acceptance of the evil; spirits of the world, Satan’s influence on our lives. I believe this is a comparison therefore of Good and Evil and a reminder that Good can always overcome Evil once we trust in the Lord. The first verse in this chapter tells us

1 John 4:1
 1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.