《主题汇析圣经》－神－神的大能

神的大能

【水牛和狗】有一作工的姊妹，顶怕水牛和狗，每次遇见肥而且黑的水牛，就要立刻逃避。一次，经过一个乡村，后面来了几只狗，一直向她狂吠，前面又有一群又大又黑的水牛迎面而来。那时真是把她吓晕了，要避狗，前面有牛；要避牛，后面又有狗，路又顶窄，进退两难，几乎把她吓晕，要倒下去。就在这时，她祷告说：『主，你给我生命，给我能力。』走一步，说一遍，她就这样平安的经过十二只可怕的水牛。这就是吸取能力。我们亲近神，吸取生命的能力，作我们里面的力量，来过我们在世上的生活。

【Power】On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens in the Cascade Range of Washington exploded with what is probably the most visible indication of the power of nature that the modern world has ever seen. At 8:32 A.M. the explosion ripped 1,300 feet off the mountain, with a force of ten million tons of TNT, or roughly equal to five hundred Hiroshimas. Sixty people were killed, most by a blast of 300-degree heat traveling at two hundred miles an hour. Some were killed as far as sixteen miles away.

  The blast also leveled 150-foot Douglas firs, as far as seventeen miles away. A total of 3.2 billion board-feet of lumber were destroyed, enough to build 200,000 three-bedroom homes.

【God’s Omnipotence】A young boy was  waiting after church for his family. The pastor saw him standing around and struck up a conversation. Since the boy had just come from Sunday school, the pastor decided to ask him some questions to determine just how much the children were learning there. He said, “Young man, if you can tell me something that God can do, I’ll give you a big shiny apple.” Thoughtfully the boy replied, “Sir, if you can tell me something God can’t do, I’ll give you a whole box of apples.”

【God’s Omnipotence】The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost when thinking about it.—Pascal, Pensees

【God’s Omnipotence】On March 5, 1979, what was called “the most powerful burst of energy ever recorded” occurred. It was described as follows:

  “The burst of gamma radiation picked up by the satellites lasted for only one tenth of a second. But in that brief instant it emitted as much energy as the sun does over a period of three thousand years. If the sun had belched out the same amount of energy, the earth would have vaporized instantly.”

  Reflecting on the event, astrophysicist Doyle Evans said, “Every time we think we understand the physical laws of the universe, nature seems bent on confounding us.”—Nature? Or God?