Friday, August 26, 2011

The God of the Thunderbolt

Expounding Psalm 29, C. H. Spurgeon speaks sanely of God's wondrous works in the world:

"Natural causes, as men call them, are God in action, and we must not ascribe power to them, but to the infinite Invisible who is the true source of all."

And,

"Thunder is in truth no mere electric phenomenon, but is caused by the interposition of God himself. Even the old heathen spake of Jupiter Tonans; but our modern wise men will have us believe in laws and forces, and anything or nothing so that they may be rid of God."

—C. H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, vol. 1, part 2, pp. 29-30. 


We need to see more of what Spurgeon saw in this glorious theater, which we call the universe, and we need to give glory to the God who governs all things after the counsel of his will, no exceptions whatever. Our God, Father, Son, and Spirit, he reigns. Our God is the God of the thunderbolt.

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