Anyone who has been at sea in a storm knows how utterly insignificant man and all his works appear in comparison with the force disporting itself about him. Yet, "The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea." (Psalm 93:4)
The forces that we see in nature are but the "outskirts of His ways." (Job 26:14)
If you wish for a vivid illustration of God's infinite power, fill the palm of the hand with water, and note how few drops there are, and how easily they are comprehended. Then know that God "has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand," (Isaiah 40:12) these waters that wash all shores, and across which the traveler sails day after day with no horizon but the waves. He cannot go beyond the hollow of the Lord's hand, and as water that is held carefully in the hand, so near are we in all the affairs of our lives to the heart and thought of God. This 40th of Isaiah begins with, "Comfort you, comfort you my people," (Isaiah 40:1) and the comfort is that all the mighty power of God revealed in the chapter is pledged to the faint.
When things go wrong, and you are tempted to think that even the Lord cannot hold them level and bring calmness and quietness to the troubled waters, just fill the hollow of your hand and see how easily you can hold it still. With infinitely greater ease the Lord can bring quietness and peace into the troubled life.--Present Truth, March 15, 1894--Psalm 93:4.