'How great are Thy works, O Lord! Thou hast made all things in wisdom' (Ps. ciii. 24), — Examples: The child Moses saved; Joseph exalted; Aman disgraced.
19. What means 'God is all-powerful or almighty'?
God is all-powerful means that He can do anything, and has only to will, and the thing is done.
'Whatsoever the Lord pleased He hath done, in Heaven, in earth, in the sea, and in all the deeps' (Ps. cxxxiv. 6.). 'Because no word shall be impossible with God' (Luke i. 37). — Examples: The Creation; the wonders in Egypt and in the desert.
20. To what should our belief in God's infinite power and infinite wisdom incite us?
It should incite us, 1. To place all our confidence in God; and 2. To be always resigned to His dispensations,
1. 'Put not your trust in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation. Blessed is he whose hope is in the Lord his God' (Ps. cxlv. 2, 5). — Example: Gedeon. 2. 'Commit thy way to the Lord and trust in Him and He will do it' (Ps. xxxvi. 5). — Example: Job.
21. What means 'God is holy'?
God is holy means that He loves and wills only what is good—i.e., what is in accord with His perfections — and that he abhors all that is evil.
'Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity' (Ps. xliv. 8). — Example: The giving of the Law on Mount Sinai.
22. What means 'God is just'?
God is just means that He rewards and punishes men according to their deserts.
'He will render to every man according to his works: . . . for there is no respect of person with God' (Rom. ii. 6, 11). Examples: The world punished by the deluge and Sodom and Gomorrha destroyed by fire from heaven; but Noe and Lot preserved.
23. When will perfect retribution be made?
Perfect retribution will not be made until the soul is in the other world;1 there is, however, even in this life, no true happiness for the wicked,2 and no true unhappiness for the just.3
1 Parable of the cockle and the wheat (Matt. xiii. 30); of the
