While we cannot see God, or know clearly how His glory is revealed, we can see what He has done. While the cross shows the power of God's love, and the resurrection the spiritual power of God, the greatest sign to us of the natural power of God is the creation of the universe and of life on earth.
That Job might come to his senses and realise the goodness, wisdom and might of God, God asks him many questions, recorded in the last few chapters of the book. Before these questions Job had seemed to say that God was not much greater than he was.
The first question the Lord asked Job was: Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. (Job 38:4) God created the earth long before Job was even born.
Of the constellations of stars, God asks Job: Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? . . . Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? (Job 38:31-33)
The first chapter of Genesis tells us that the stars, the sun and the moon were created to give light and to define the seasons, the days and the years. Men might be able to make electricity for light but God made the sun, moon and stars for light and beauty. Though men make watches and calendars, God made the ordinances of heaven upon which these are based.
Not only did God make the universe, but He also created life upon it. It is mathematically impossible that life could have evolved by chance, as I show in the article: Creation. So God asks: Hast thou given the horse strength? (Job 39:19) or: Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom? (Job 39:26)
It is God that has ordained the propagation of life. God says: Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. Their young ones are in good liking, they grow with corn. (Job 39:1-4) Although scientists can now answer some of these questions, this understanding should give even greater wonder at the works of God, as well as posing new questions.
Although other signs of God's power, pale into insignificance compared with the creation of the universe, they keep us mindful of God's power. God is a God of truth and wishes us to be under no delusion regarding His power. He says: Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. (Isaiah 33:13)
Although man may understand how the weather works, it is God who makes it work. He says: Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are? (Job 38:34,35) Although man has some limited ability to bring rain, he could do nothing at all if God had not made the system such that vapours would ascend and form the clouds.
Man is acquiring wisdom but God asks us: Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? (Job 38:36) However our wisdom compares with others, we should remember that all wisdom is derived from God, lest we become proud.