Job 38:11The Lord said; This far you may come and no farther, here is where your proud waves halt.
The Lord is
telling man that man is finite and limited, though man may know many things and
can control many things on earth; there is a limit to his capabilities. This is
the power and control of nature that only God and his angels have power to do
so. This is beyond the natural realm and is in the spiritual.
As far as we
know perhaps some people engaged in witchcraft have also through the help of
demonic powers managed to conjure some form of control over the forces of
nature. But these are false spirits at work and they operate through
counterfeit powers which the demons that are fallen angels still have.
But the true
man who had this power was Jesus as he is also the Son of God and also God.
Matt 8: 23-27 recorded how Jesus and His disciples were in a boat crossing the Sea
of Galilee when a severe storm arose. The disciples were afraid of sinking and
they called upon Jesus to save them. Immediately Jesus commanded the wind and
the wave to be still and it did.
This is the
power that only Jesus could demonstrate that is from God. In truth there is no
other man who can do it. The witch doctors too did not have the power to do it;
it was the demons that did it for them.
God is
supreme over all creation as Job confessed from Job 38 – Job 40. These three
chapters were recorded to tell us the truth the supremacy of God and all His
powers in the world. This is a timely reminder for all believers that though
man have gained much knowledge through science and technology; they are but a
finite creature that knows only a tiny dot of the knowledge in the whole
universe that has been created by God.
Man must not
be proud and arrogant to think that he can do all things without the help of
God. Pride will be the fore runner of a downfall. This has always been the
case, proud men will also face their downfall though God can be merciful and
delay His judgement at times but God will surely judge and bring the man low.
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