The Power Of God
“The power of God is that ability
and strength whereby He can bring to pass whatsoever He pleases, whatsoever His
infinite wisdom may direct, whatsoever the infinite purity of His will may
resolve...As holiness is the beauty of all God’s attributes, so power is that
which gives life and action to all the perfections of the divine nature. How
vain would be the eternal counsels, if power did not step in to execute them.
Without power His mercy would be but feeble pity, His promises an empty sound,
His threatenings a mere scarecrow. God’s power is like Himself: infinite,
eternal, incomprehensible; it can neither be checked, restrained, nor
frustrated by the creature (Stephen Charnock).”
“God’s power is like Himself,
self-existent, self-sustained. The mightiest of men cannot add so much as a
shadow of increased power to the Omnipotent One. He sits on no buttressed
throne and leans on no assisting arm. His court is not maintained by His
courtiers, not does it borrow its splendor from His creatures. He is Himself
the great central source and Originator of all power (C.H. Spurgeon).”
