There Has Been Too Much Trifling With Jehovah!! (and others)

There Has Been Too Much Trifling With Jehovah! (and others)

"Then I answered and said: Amen, O Lord!" (Jeremiah 11:5).

Perhaps there is a secret contention going on between you and
God. God has spoken to you - but thus far there has not been Jeremiah's response of "Amen, O Lord."

Here you have the one response which a man of God must ever make to the words of God. When God says anything to him, there is nothing left for him but to bow the head and say, "Amen, O Lord - so be it!"

This response is the only one that suits a creature's lip. When God speaks - there is nothing left for man but to hear. When God decrees - there is nothing for man to do but acquiesce. When Jehovah gives a command - what is there left for His creature to do but obey? Any other word than "Amen" springs from rebellion. Any other response to the word of Jehovah, simply tells of a heart that wars with God.

It is not for men to judge God's words, far less to amend them. It it pleases Jehovah to say anything, no matter how stern, how dreadful, or how searching - there is only one position for man: that is to bow his head and say, "Amen, O Lord."

"Oh," says one, in the proud spirit of our times, "you are making a bold bid for your God this morning."

I am. The sovereignty of God needs to be brought to the front. There has been too much trifling with Jehovah! Man needs to have the peacock's feathers plucked out of his cap, and be taught that he is a poor little nothing, and that for God to speak to him at all is infinite condescension, and that for him to say anything else than "Amen" is boundless impudence!

If God condescends to utter a command, am I to go and judge whether the Lord has a right to say it? Shall I take the word of Jehovah my Maker and weigh it in my scales - and bring up His thoughts to the paltry bar of my fallen reason - and enter my protest unless I can see a good reason for God speaking as He does? When God promulgates a decree, He does not send it to man to be revised!

We are living in the days of the deification of humanity. We hear so much about 'the glory of humanity', and 'the triumphs of humanity' - that God has become little better than a very inferior deity who runs after man and tips His cap to him.

This is not the picture which the Bible gives. God's claim is this, "I am the Lord, and you are but the creatures of My hand. The brightest of My angels are but sparks struck off from the anvil of My creative omnipotence. When I speak, let men and angels be silent; or, if they must speak, let them say: Amen, O Lord!" This is the only response that suits a creature's lip.

If you can conceive of a being who is infinitely wise, all-powerful, infinitely righteous, absolutely holy, inflexibly just, and all gathered up into boundless love - that is God.

If such a One speaks - then what is there left for me but to say, "Amen?" I am stark, raving mad, if I dare question the utterance of Infinite Wisdom. I am unutterably vile, if I can dare to criticize the utterance of Absolute Love. Idiocy must have taken hold of my brain and alas! of my heart, if I would amend anything which His infinite holiness has declared. The very nature and character of God declare that the only response for man when God speaks is "Amen, O Lord."

Oh, for that grand attitude of resignation and submission to God, that bows before every word of God - whether it be a silver note of mercy from Heaven, or a thunder-clap of denunciation!

~Archibald Brown~

(The End)
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He Does As He Pleases!

"For the Lord Almighty has purposed - and who can thwart Him? His hand is stretched out - and who can turn it back?" (Isaiah 14:27).

To say that God is sovereign, is to declare that He is the Almighty, the Possessor of all power in Heaven and earth - so that none can defeat His counsels, thwart His purpose, or resist His will.

Whatever takes place in time - is but the outworking of that which He has decreed in eternity. The sovereignty of the God of Scripture is absolute, irresistible, and infinite!

We insist that God does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases!

"The Lord does whatever pleases Him, in the Heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths!" (Psalm 135:6).

"All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. God does as He pleases with the powers of Heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back His hand or say to Him: What have you done?" (Daniel 4:35).

~A. W. Pink~