Supreme Please

Our human minds are so finite and need little (or big) reminders of how awesome God is and how insignifacant we are from time to time (or every day). I came across some of these reminders in a Piper book a few days ago and wanted to share them with you. These are some ways that God shows his supremacy:

*The supremacy of his eternality that makes the mind of man explode with the unsearchable thought that Christ never had a beginning, but simply always was; sheer, absolute reality while all the universe is fragile, contingent, like a shadow by comparison to his all-defining, ever-existing substance.

*The supremacy of his never-changing constancy in all his virtues and all his character and all his commitments--the same yesterday, today, and forever.

*The supremacy of his authority over heavan and earth and hell--without whose permission no man and no demon can move one inch; who changes times and seasons, removes kings and sets up kings; who does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth, so that none can stay his hand or say to him, "what have you done?" (see Dan. 4:35)

*The supremacy of his word that moment by moment upholds the universe and holds in being all the molecules and atoms and subatomic world we have never yet dreamed of.

*The supremacy of his justice to render in due time all moral accounts in the universe settled either on the cross or in hell.

*The supremacy of his patience to endure our dullness for decade after decade and to hold back his final judgement on this land and on the world, that many might repent

and

*The supremacy of his grace that gives life to spiritually dead rebels and wakens faith in hell-bound haters of God, and justifies the ungodly with his own righteousness.

this wasn't all of them, but oh how wonderful they were to read and soak up such good truths.
Grace and Peace
Sarah