Everywhere and Yet Forgotten

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Job 12:9-10

Who knows not in all these that the hand of the LORD has worked this?…

There is much temper here, but there is very much also of good common sense. Job wished to show that the fact of the presence of God in all things was so clearly discernible that men need not borrow the eagle's wing to mount to heaven, nor need they enter into the bowels of Leviathan to find a chariot wherein to enter the depths of the sea.

I. THE PRESENT HAND OF GOD UPON EVERYTHING.

1. This is one of the doctrines which men believe, but are constantly forgetting.

2. This is a fact of universal force.

3. A truth worthy of perpetual remembrance.

II. OUR ABSOLUTE DEPENDENCE UPON A PRESENT GOD AT THIS VERY MOMENT.

1. Our life is entirely dependent upon God.

2. So are our comforts.

3. So is the power to enjoy those comforts. If this be true concerning temporals, how doubly true is it with regard to spiritual things. There is no Christian grace which has in it a particle of self-existence.

III. LESSONS FROM THIS SUBJECT. Child of God, see where thou art. Thou art completely in the hand of God. Thou art absolutely and entirely, and in every respect, placed at the will and disposal of Him who is thy God. Art thou grieved because of this? Does this doctrine trouble thee? Let your conversation be as becometh this doctrine. Speak of what thou wilt do, and of what will happen, always in respect to the fact that man proposes, but God disposes. To the sinner we say, Man, you are in the hand of God.

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