Happy is the man who voluntarily subjects himself to God's will and
word, but whether we voluntarily subject ourselves to God's will and
word or not, we are subject to His will and word whether or no. The
angels also are subject to His will and word (Heb. 1:13, 14) and even
Satan himself is, although entirely against his own will, absolutely
subject to the will and word of God, as is evident from Job 1:12 and
Job 2:6.
_The exercise of God's omnipotence is limited by His own wise and holy
and loving will._ God _can do_ anything, but _will do_ only that which
infinite wisdom and holiness and love dictate. This comes out, for
example, in Isa. 59:1, 2: +"Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened,
that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: (2)
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your
sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear."+
3. _The God of the Bible is also omniscient._ In 1 John 3:20 we read:
+"God knoweth all things."+ Turning to the Old Testament, in
Ps. 147:5, we read: +"Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; his
understanding is infinite."+ The literal translation of the last
clause of this passage is "Of his understanding there is no number." In
these passages it is plainly declared that "God knoweth all things" and
that "His understanding is infinite." In Job 37:16 Elihu the messenger
of God is represented as saying that Jehovah is "perfect in knowledge."
Along the same line, in Acts 15:18 we read: +"Known unto God are all
his works from the beginning of the world."+ The Revised Version
makes a change in the translation of this verse but this change does
not alter the sense of the truth here set forth that God knows all His
works and all things from the beginning of the world. _Known to Him is
everything from the most vast to the most minute detail._ In Ps. 147:4
we are told that, +"He telleth the number of the stars; he knoweth
them all by name."+ While in Matt. 10:29 we are told that _not a
sparrow_ falleth to the ground without Him. The stars in all their
stupendous magnitude and the sparrows in all their insignificance are
all equally in His mind.
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