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(The Lord God) who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number.
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Some of the ‘great things’ that Job speaks about God doing in that chapter of the bible include moving mountains, shaking the earth, determining if the sun will shine or not, putting the stars in place, and if it is a matter of power, then behold, He is the strong one! All those things that Father God made to happen or to be, and that mankind generally and foolishly attributes to ‘Mother Nature’—a creation of Greek philosophy.

The apostle Paul had been preaching about Jesus in Ephesus. He was so effective that it was affecting the profits of the merchants who were selling shrines of Artemis (Diana to the Romans). This led to the town clerk crying out, ‘Men of Ephesus, what man is there after all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis, and of the image which fell down from heaven?’ {Acts 19:35} They wanted profits, not prophets!

There was the occasion when the apostles were traveling with Jesus on a boat when a mighty storm arose and they were in fear of their lives. They woke up the Lord who was sleeping (no fear there on His part) so He arose, spoke of their lack of faith, and then rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. And the men marveled, saying, “What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?” {Mat.8:24-27} No Mother Nature there, just our Lord and Savior, Jesus controlling the weather and doing the will of His Father.

Hurricane Sandy, a massive super-storm that occurred in October and November in 2012 was, according to the experts, “highly unusual” in the path that it took. It seems that they did not study the prophet Isaiah in whatever meteorology school they attended. Isaiah wrote moved by the Spirit of God that ‘as a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, like a storm of mighty overflowing waters, He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.’ {Is.28:2} Yes, even the winds and the sea obey Him!

When I first heard the reports of Sandy hitting New Jersey and New York I immediately remembered the words of God that Elihu spoke to Job:
“Out of the south comes the storm, and out of the north the cold. From the breath of God ice is made, and the expanse of the waters is frozen. Also with moisture He loads the thick cloud; He disperses the cloud of His lightning. And it changes direction, turning around by His guidance, that it may do whatever He commands it on the face of the inhabited earth. Whether for correction, or for His world, or for lovingkindness, He causes it to happen.” (Job 37:9-13)

That was an exact description of that ‘highly unusual path’ of Hurricane Sandy as the storm coming up from the warm waters of the Caribbean collided with the cold front coming down from the north and then did what those storms ‘don’t do’ when it made a left hand turn into New Jersey! God said it, and God did it because He watches over His word to perform it. {Jer.1:12}

Now, I look and I see a storm rising! Not because of the cloud formations or because of what the weatherman (or woman) says on the TV or radio but because of the fact that they are all talking about Mother Nature rather than Father God! And because as always, His Word is true. {Jn.17:17}

“For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; and avoid such men as these.” (2 Timothy 3:2-5)

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