God’s Greatness

God’s Greatness

“O Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds?” Deut. 3:24.

Moses had reached the end of his life, and God had begun to give Israel the Promised Land, and this exemplified God’s greatness to Moses. He had also witnessed the exodus from Egypt, but that was not God’s ultimate promise to the people of Israel; neither was it God’s goodness and powerful works during their wanderings in the wilderness. But when God began to give them the Promised Land, the land of Canaan, then the Lord became great in Moses’ eyes.

This can teach us something. We also have a “promised land” before us, and this land is divine nature. It beckons us and draws us, and faith and love impel us forward. We have tasted God’s goodness and blessings in various ways. He has revealed the way to us that we must go; He has given us light and understanding in His Word, and all this has strengthened us to continue to endure. Yet all this was not the land itself; it was only a foretaste of the land that He has promised. When the Lord begins to give us a share of the divine nature, we see His promises being fulfilled, and then we become thoroughly convinced that this has not happened because of us. Therefore the Lord appears to us as the great Master that He truly is.

They comprehend God’s greatness in heaven, praising Him day and night. Their life consists of honoring, exalting, and praising the greatness of His power.

We, who partake of the divine nature—which He has promised to those who love Him—we also learn to praise, thank, and glorify Him in the right way. We ought to learn that even more, for the angels in heaven do not possess divine nature in the same way we do, but they do share in purity and holiness. They cannot see His greatness in the same way we do, we who have been saved out of darkness, sin, and all ungodliness and have been transported into the kingdom of light.

However, as long as I am obsessed with human worth and the honor that is given my “I,” it is difficult for me to see His greatness, in spite of light from the Lord. But when my honor is laid down before Jesus, all obstacles vanish and I see only the Lord on that day.