“To whom will you compare me? Or who is my
equal?” says the Holy One. Isaiah 40:25 (NIV)
In the 1950s we kids used to tune in to the weekly Adventures of Superman TV series. The Man of Steel was faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and could leap tall buildings in a single bound. Bullets bounced off his chest, but we never wondered why he ducked his head when the bad guys would throw their empty guns at him in their last-ditch villainous Hail Mary’s.
Superman may
have been able to do more than mere mortals, but, alas, he was imperfect. He
was not all wise, nor all knowing, or even all powerful as his aversion to
kryptonite proved. Between the Man of Steel and God there is no comparison. God
has revealed in His word that He holds the ultimate power in the universe. For
Him, nothing is impossible (Jeremiah 32:27, Luke 1:37).
“Let there
be…” is chronicled 8 times of God speaking Creation into being in the Genesis record
(Gen. 1:3, 6, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26). As in mythological accounts where the
gods made the universe out of preexisting matter, God called all matter into
being out of nothing with incomprehensible power, by His will and His word, everything being
perfectly good in the widest sense (Gen:1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31). God saw
no need to tweak anything He spoke into existence ex nihilo (out of
nothing).
Why consider
this attribute of Yahweh and how is it relevant to us today? If He cannot do
all things, how can He be a God we can depend on fully? He would be
untrustworthy and could not be the God revealed in Scripture.
He is omnipotent not only by power alone but because of all His combined attributes, which work symbiotically. You get one, you get all working together to your highest good. Knowing the attribute of God’s omnipotence gives us tremendous insight into Christ as Savior and Redeemer.
Jesus Christ is 100% Man and 100% God. In His appearance to John in Revelation 1:15-16, as He exists now is displayed. John saw Jesus in the full glory of the Godhead, His hair being white as snow (holy), His eyes like blazing fire (discerning hearts and intentions), His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace (bronze designates righteous Judgment), out of His mouth was a double-edged sword (metaphor for power and strength), His voice was like the sound of rushing waters (complete supremacy) and His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance (none comparable). He is the Omnipotent Man!
Jesus is
just not Spirit but human. When one really stops to consider the humanity of
His being fully God and fully human, what greater representative to the Father
could we have than another fellow human being who has lived and suffered with us?
He told the
Jewish religious leaders that He would raise Himself from the dead (John
2:19-22). He tells John “I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am
alive for ever and ever!” (Rev. 1:18). We can trust someone who holds
that kind of ultimate power and love, power so ably demonstrated
on the cross.
Satan is on
a short leash with a short deadline, and he is in a panic. He is doing
everything in his limited power to overcome the God of biblical revelation, but
he cannot. If he were powerful enough, he would have already done so, but he is
only a created being and not the Most High.
God can do
all things and as A.W. Tozer stated, “God has not surrendered His throne to any
other,” and never will. In my life the Omnipotent
Man has proved Himself to me over and over. I will choose Him over anything or
anyone every time!
Maranatha,
Ken
