by Arthur Pink
"Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases!" Psalm 115:3
Ah,
my reader, the God of Scripture is no make-believe monarch, no mere
imaginary sovereign; but King of kings, and Lord of lords! To countless
thousands, even among those professing to be Christians, the God of the Scriptures is quite unknown.
The god
of this generation no more resembles the Supreme Sovereign of Holy
Writ, than does the dim flickering of a candle, the glory of the midday
sun!
The god who is now . . .
talked about in the average pulpit,
spoken of in the ordinary Sunday School,
mentioned in much of the religious literature of the day,
and preached in most of the so-called Bible Conferences—
is the figment of human imagination, an invention of mushy sentimentality!
The heathen outside of the pale of Christendom form gods out of wood and stone, while the millions of heathen inside Christendom manufacture a god
out of their own carnal mind! In reality, they are but atheists, for
there is no other possible alternative between an absolutely supreme
God and no God at all. A god whose will is resisted, whose
designs are frustrated, whose purpose is checkmated, possesses no title
to Deity—and so far from being a fit object of worship, merits nothing
but contempt!
"I know that You can do anything, and no plan of Yours can be thwarted." Job 42:2
"Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!" Revelation 19:6