"Power Belongeth Unto God"
Psalm 62:11
Power belongs to God,
and to God alone. There is not a creature in all the
universe that has a single particle of power, except that which God has given.
God alone has power. The power possessed by angels, men, demons and beasts is
derived from him. But God's power is unacquired, underived. No one gives God
power. He is power! Power belongs to him inherently. God is omnipotent!
"Omnipotence is
essential to God. It is his by nature. A weak Deity is an obsurdity" (John
Gill). "We cannot have a right conception of God unless we think of him as
all-powerful, as well as all-wise. He who cannot do what he will and perform
all his pleasure cannot be God. As God has a will to resolve what he deems
good, so he has power to execute his will" (A.W. Pink). "The power of
God is that ability and strength whereby he can bring to pass whatever he
pleases. As holiness is the beauty of all God's attributes, so power is that
which gives life and action to all the perfections of the divine nature. How
vain would be the eternal counsels, if power did not step in to execute them.
Without power his mercy would be but a feeble pity, his promises an empty
sound, his threatenings a mere scare crow. God's power is like himself: infinite,
eternal, incomprehensible. It can neither be checked, restrained, nor
frustrated by the creature" (Stephen Charnock). "God's power is like himself, self-existent, self-sustained. The mightiest of men
cannot add so much a shadow of increased power to the omnipotent One. He sits
on no buttressed throne and leans on no assisting arm. His court is not
maintained by his courtiers, nor does it borrow its splendor from his
creatures. He is himself the great central Source and Originator of all power"
(C.H. Spurgeon).
Power is synonomous
with God. To speak of God is to speak of power. To speak of power is to speak
of God. The two cannot be separated. We read of "the Son of man sitting at
the right hand of power" (Mk. 14:62). That is the right hand of God. As
God's essence is immense, not confined to any place, and eternal, not measured
by time, so it is almighty, not limited in ability.
God is omnipotent! "He walketh among the waves of the sea" (Job 9:8).
"He walketh in the circuit of heaven" (Job
Don Fortner