A SHOUT!

I want to spend a minute looking at the last part of the passage that we explored yesterday from the book of Job. Job has been talking about the greatness of God’s creation and how He upholds that creation with His might. And then he makes this incredible statement:

Job 26:14 (NIV)
14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
how faint the whisper we hear of him!
Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”
(emphasis mine)

As I contemplated this verse throughout the day I was struck with the fact that everything that I know, everything that I think is magnificent; from the vastness of space, to the majesty of the mountains, to the depth of the ocean is but the fringe of what God is capable of doing. That all that I have ever experienced is just God’s whisper to me! Then my mind went to the book of 1 Thessalonians where Paul is describing what it will be like when the Lord returns and we are united with Him forever. Look at what it says:

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 (NIV)
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
(emphasis mine)

Did you see what just happened? Where all of creation was just God’s whisper to us, when He returns to get us it will no longer be a whisper but it will be A LOUD COMMAND! No longer will our Savior speak in a whisper, then He will speak full voice! No longer will we see dimly, then we will see clearly and His beauty will sustain us forever!

Oh Lord that we might hear your beautiful powerful voice that shakes the mountains and delights the soul! Oh that we might join in the great roar of the multitude as we shout of your greatness!

Revelation 19:6-7 (NIV)
6 Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting:
“Hallelujah!
For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
7 Let us rejoice and be glad
and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
and his bride has made herself ready.