The LORD is God

One aspect of God I love is that nothing is hard for Him.  In fact, He intentionally stacks all the odds against Himself so there is no doubt He is the only One who could be responsible for miraculously doing the impossible.  For instance when it came time for Elijah to offer a sacrifice to God on Mt. Carmel, before he prayed for God to send fire from heaven he commanded the wood and sacrifice be drenched with water and to fill a trench around it.  When the fire of God fell in response to Elijah's prayer, it consumed the offering and even licked up the water that was in the trench.  Everyone who witnessed the event shouted, "The LORD, He is God!" and fell on their faces in worship.  The God who created the natural laws we perceive and understand, and what we know in part helps us define what is truly miraculous.  Hezekiah saw it as a little thing for the shadow of the sundial to go down 10 degrees, so he requested God made the sundial return backward 10 degrees (2 Kings 20:11).  It was nothing for God to heal Hezekiah of a deadly illness or to make the sun and earth obey His command.  God is the LORD of all.

After God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt with mighty plagues and wonders, He caused them to pass through the Red Sea unharmed while the army of Egypt was drowned and overthrown.  When it came time to cross the Jordan into Canaan, it was the season when the river flooded its banks--not a time any sensible person would think of crossing it with their little ones and livestock.  But this is exactly when God led His people into the land, and their safe passage was not only proof of His power and protection but a promise of His future deliverance.  Joshua 3:9-13 says, "So Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God." ¹⁰ And Joshua said, "By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites: ¹¹ behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is crossing over before you into the Jordan. ¹² Now therefore, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from every tribe. ¹³ And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, the waters that come down from upstream, and they shall stand as a heap."  And that is exactly what happened:  the children of Israel passed over on dry ground in the time of harvest, and God did not fail in driving out the enemies of Israel before them.

Jesus did many things which showed God indeed was among men as Nicodemus the Pharisee said, "No one can do these signs that you do unless God is with Him" (John 3:2).  It is true God was with Jesus, yet it would be much more accurate to say based on all evidence provided and the testimony of God's word that Jesus is God.  Many times during His time on earth Jesus claimed to be equal to God the Father, drawing the ire of the Jewish religious leaders.  When they asked Jesus for a sign after He just healed a man with a withered hand and delivered a man from a demon who rendered him blind and dumb, Matthew 12:39-40, "But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. ⁴⁰ For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."  Jesus waited until Lazarus was dead, buried and decomposing before raising him to life, and after being crucified Jesus rose from the dead three days later.  His resurrection, in addition to proving His identity and power, reveals He is able to forgive sins and grant eternal life to all who trust in Him.  Admiring Jesus in worship--who does what only God can do--may we declare, "The LORD, He is God!"