Study Desk

"God is powerful, but he does not hate people; he is powerful and sure of what he wants to do.

God tells them what they have done, that they have sinned in their pride.

God makes them listen to his warning and commands them to change from doing evil.

"Those who have wicked hearts hold on to anger. Even when God punishes them, they do not cry for help.

But God saves those who suffer through their suffering; he gets them to listen through their pain.

"God is gently calling you from the jaws of trouble to an open place of freedom where he has set your table full of the best food.

Be careful! Don't be led away from God by riches; don't let much money turn you away.

"God is great and powerful; no other teacher is like him.

No one has planned his ways for him; no one can say to God, ‘You have done wrong.'

God is so great, greater than we can understand! No one knows how old he is.

No one understands how God spreads out the clouds or how he sends thunder from where he lives.

Watch how God scatters his lightning around him, lighting up the deepest parts of the sea.

This is the way God governs the nations; this is how he gives us enough food.

God fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its target.

With it, he stops everyone from working so everyone knows it is the work of God.

The breath of God makes ice, and the wide waters become frozen.

Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?

Do you know how the clouds hang in the sky? Do you know the miracles of God, who knows everything?

You cannot stretch out the sky like God and make it look as hard as polished bronze.

Should God be told that I want to speak? Would a person ask to be swallowed up?