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Who Can Fight God
And Win?
Who would dare
to rebel against such a God?
Who would
dare to become stiff and stubborn, tough and severe
against His commands...resist or withstand such a One of
infinite Wisdom and Power Who
knows everything and can do anything?
It is utter
madness to think that one can outwit or
overpower Him!
Job 9:4 tells us - "He
is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened
himself against Him, and hath prospered?"
Oftentimes, in describing God, the Scriptures will link His
Wisdom and Strength
together.
Job 9:4 - Our opening verse says - "He
is wise in heart and mighty in strength..."
He is cunning and prudent...knows all things...searches out
and sees all things...and is well able to manage His affairs
for He is "wise in heart."
He is also "mighty in
strength." He is powerful, full of
force, vigor, and might...firm in His Will and
Ways...and well able to execute all His designs and
purposes.
This same coupling of God's Wisdom
and Strength can be found
throughout the Scriptures. Some examples are as follows -
Job 12:13 -
"With him is Wisdom and
Strength..."
Job 12:16 - "With Him is Strength and Wisdom..."
Job 36:5 - "Behold,
God is mighty...He is mighty in Strength and
Wisdom."
Daniel 2:20 - "Daniel
answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and
ever: for Wisdom and Might are His."
1 Corinthians 1:24 -
"But unto them which are called, both
Jews and Greeks, Christ the Power of God, and the
Wisdom of God."
Revelation 5:12 -
"Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is
the Lamb that was slain to receive Power...and Wisdom,
and Strength..."
Job 26:12 -
"He divideth the sea with His Power, and by His
Understanding
He smiteth through the proud."
Psalm 136:4-5 -
"To Him Who alone doeth great
wonders...To Him that by Wisdom made the
heavens..."
Psalm 147:5 -
"Great is our Lord, and of great
Power: His Understanding is infinite."
Jeremiah 10:12 -
"He hath made the earth by His
Power, He hath established the world by His Wisdom...."
Jeremiah 32:19 -
"Great in Counsel, and
Mighty in work..."
1 Corinthians 1:25 -
"Because the foolishness of God is
Wiser than men; and the weakness of
God is Stronger than men."
From these Scriptures, we see that God is the Fountain of
all Wisdom and the Source of all
Power. With Him is skill and
prudence. With Him is might, valor, bravery, force, power,
the Victory,
and the Mastery.
Job 42:2 - Truly, we can wholeheartedly
agree with Job when he said - "I
know that Thou canst do every thing(Strength), and that no
thought can be withholden from Thee(Wisdom)."
Indeed, Christ is the
"Power of God" and the
"Wisdom of God."
He is the Great Creator Who made the heavens and the earth
by His Great Power
and Matchless
Wisdom. He
performs the Impossible by His
Power and reduces to nothingness the proud and the gainsayers by His Wisdom. In any situation that we face, He will forevermore be our Wonderful Counsellor -
Jeremiah 32:19 - Our Miracle
Worker Who is
"great in counsel, and mighty in
work."
Job 9:4 says - "He is
wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened
himself against Him, and hath prospered?"
Who would dare to rebel against such a God? Who would dare
to become stiff and stubborn, tough and severe against His
commands? Who would dare to resist or withstand such a One
of infinite Wisdom and
Power Who knows everything and can do
anything? It is utter madness to think that one can outwit
Him or overpower Him!
Yet there are those who adopt
a firmness or resolution in opposing His law, claims, and
government over their lives.
Are you one of them?
Are you offering Him some
form of resistance to a claim that He is presently making on
your life? Are you putting forth a stiff right arm to Him
saying, "I have gone thus far, and I will go no more"
because you are afraid of what your wife and children might
think of you if you should obey Him?
Many men of God have lost out with God
because they feared their wife and her idle threats before
Fearing God and His Holy Word.
Many Moves of God have been quenched because the Pastor
feared the idle threats of the deacon board and/or
congregation before Fearing God and His Holy
Word.
The Scriptures tell us
that if we harden ourselves against God, we will never
prosper.
What does this mean?
We will never meet True Success in
our endeavors or Live in Peace and Harmony
if we resist His authority in our lives. There will be
no comfort in our way. We will
meet with troubles and turmoil at every chance.
Proverbs 28:14 says -
"...but he that hardeneth his heart
shall fall into mischief." He that does
not receive the impressions of God's Word and Rod on his
life will meet with adversity, affliction, calamity,
distress, evil, trouble, injury, and wrong.
Is it worth it to
fight God?
Remember - Job 9:4
asks - "...who hath
hardened himself against Him, and hath prospered?" There
hasn't been found a one yet who could oppose such a God -
"wise in heart and mighty in strength"
- and get away with it!
Don't do it, Pastor!
Don't do it, Child of God!
Don't do it, Backslider!
Don't do it, Sinner Man and Sinner Woman!
Don't think that you can
obstinately persist in rebellion against such a God without
paying dearly for your folly.
You will find Him too hard
for you!
Proverbs 29:1 says -
"He, that being often reproved
hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that
without remedy."
Daniel 5:20 - If you refuse God's reproof
and rebuke as Nebuchadnezzar did -
"...his heart was lifted
up, and his mind hardened in pride..." - you will be "destroyed." Your life, ministry, home, marriage, etc. will be ruined, broken in pieces, shattered, and crushed "without remedy." There will be nothing left to heal or cure. You will lose it all!
Don't allow your heart to
become hardened against the commands of God and His
judgments.
Don't deal proudly with
those sent by Him to admonish you.
Don't become willful and
obstinate with His Word or Rod in your life.
You are not fighting a
man; You are fighting God Who is "wise
in heart and mighty in strength."
1 Corinthians 10:22 asks - "Do
we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?"
Nahum 1:6 inquires - "Who
can stand before His indignation?"
Who would dare to fight with
God?
Who considers himself a match
for such an Awesome Being?
No one - as of yet - has
hardened himself against Him and prospered.
No one has and no one
ever will.
God is "wise in heart." He
is "mighty in strength."
No successful resistance to His claims can be made. Our
position before Him must always be to yield to His demands
and government over our lives. We are to be at peace with
Him, offering Him no resistance.
Christian, where at you in
your relationship with God?
Are you offering Him some
form of resistance because you are afraid of the
consequences of "selling out" to Him?
You cannot win in your
resistance to Him.
He is too wise and too
powerful for you to withstand.
Obey God no matter what the
consequences.
Proverbs 28:14 says - "Happy
is the man that feareth alway..." Oh, how
blessed is the one who
continuously keeps a holy awe and reverence for Him - dreading ever offending such a One and incurring His displeasure.
May we all fear Him
today.
And in fearing Him, may we all come to know the true blessedness that is found in doing things His way.
Connie
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