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October 11
God is Searching for People He Can be Mighty For
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars (2 Chron. 16:9)
Note that God desires to display His power on someone’s behalf, but He does not do this cheaply. He is searching for someone on the earth that He can work with. If God were someone whose only goal was to show off His greatness and omnipotence in order to impress (or bring fear) then we certainly would not read passages like this one.
Notice that God searches for someone on the earth to display His strength on their behalf. Believe it or not, by covenant right, God cannot just do anything that He wants on the earth. As far as power and ability are concerned, God certainly could do what He wants. However, God is a God that keeps covenant and in His integrity He will never use His power in a way that breaks covenant.
What is the covenant that has God searching on the earth for good men to utilize His power for? In Genesis 1:26-28 He gave man the dominion over the earth. Once He gave man this authority He respected it. Man became responsible for inviting God into the earth to intervene on his behalf. Quite often, men fail to pray and ask God to display His power and this is why we seldom see it. Hence God’s eyes go to and fro throughout the earth looking for someone to invite Him in to intervene.
This is also the answer to the age old question that if “God is all good and all powerful, why does evil exist?” Evil exists because a good and all powerful God respected the covenant that He made with mankind despite the great pain He endures when He sees what we do with that covenant freedom.
Nevertheless, this passage shows us the love of God in how He uses His power on our behalf. He is searching for people that He can help. Satan, on the other hand, is looking for people to use the power he has usurped so that he can devour them (1 Pet. 5:8-9). In other words, while God wants to use His great power to help and bless, Satan wants to abuse the little power that he has to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10). Let us learn to yield to an omnipotent God who desires to show Himself strong on our behalf.
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