Job 9:5-9

Which removeth the mountains.

God in nature

I. Its almightiness is overwhelmingly grand in its manifestations. “Removeth the mountains,” etc. The whole passage impresses one with the unbounded energy of God.

1. His almightiness should impress all with a sense of their utter insignificance.

2. His almightiness should impress the sinner with his impious hardihood.

II. Its almightiness is co-extensive with the universe. Job here touches every part of material nature--the earth, the sea, the heavens--and sees God working in all.

1. His universal agency explains all material phenomena.

2. His universal agency binds men practically to recognise Him in every part of nature. He is the Force of all forces, the Pulse of all life, the Spirit of all forms. (Homilist.)

Religious interest in nature

There are some who feel no interest in nature, others feel a mere commercial interest in it, others feel an artistic or scientific interest in it, but how few feel a religious interest in it--regard it as the product, the mirror, the organ, of the Infinite Mind. If I fear an artist, I care not for his pictures; if I fear an author, I feel no interest in his work. If men loved, instead of feared God, how beautiful nature would appear to them. The painting and poem of a father, how interesting to his child! (R. Venting.)