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You Are God, You Alone
"You Are God, You Alone"
by David Padfield
Have you ever considered that period of time when Jehovah dwelt alone, without any of the works of His creation? There was a period in eternity before the sun ever gave its light. There was a time before the stars floated in the sky. There was a time when all that you and I can now see was yet unborn, slumbering in the mind of God.
Before the creation of the sun, the moon, the stars and the planets of the Milky Way, there was a God, and He was blessed forever. Although no angels yet hymned His praises, He sat as a King on His eternal throne. "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God" (Psa. 90:2).
In the process of time, it pleased the Father to create this world and all things therein through His Son. "For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist" (Col. 1:16-17).
Have you ever considered how infinitely inferior we are to God? We can hear the great prophet Isaiah say, "O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our potter; and all we are the work of Your hand" (Isa. 64:8). Throughout the course of human events Jehovah has endeavored to teach mankind that He is God, and beside Him "there is no other" (Isa. 45:22).
When the king of Assyria threatened Israel, good king Hezekiah humbly prayed, "O Lord God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth" (2 Kings 19:15). He then beseeched Jehovah to "hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God" and "save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord God, You alone" (2 Kings 19:16, 19).
