The Lord, the Almighty

The Lord, the Almighty 8/15/2016     The Lord appoints the sun to shine by day. He decrees the moon and stars to shine by night. He stirs up the sea so that its waves roar - the Lord Almighty is His name (Jer. 31:35 NIV). The most amazing fact in the world is not that God saves, loves and redeems. It is the fact that He is. Compared to this small world of space, time, matter and human beings, He is a God of greatness and majesty, of glory and grace.      It was necessary for the Israelites to be reminded of this. They had been conquered by a stronger army and exiled to a miserable existence in a faraway land. Then they were forced to serve new masters. It would have been easier for them to give up their faith in God and worship the gods of their Babylonian oppressors; to go with the flow. But Jeremiah confronted them with the fact that their God had always been the Lord Almighty; sovereign ruler of the nations and Lord of His entire creation.      To this day He is still the Lord, the Almighty. In spite of the increasing confidence of humanity to solve their own problems; in spite of the pressure to be independent of God, they still need God and need to be reminded that He is.  There is One who is more important, and rises above the daily realities of money, sex, power and human striving, and He rules the Almighty - superior and mystic. In Christ He saved the human race from their worst m misery and misdeeds. He bends down to gain access to your small heart and claim you for Himself. He is the Lord, the Almighty. Saint James Assembly of Faith