The Lord Our Strength

But further, with regard to these blessed ones, it is said, “Who rideth upon the heavens in thy help and His excellency on the sky.” Look at this expression, “Rideth upon the heavens in thy help.” Such a thought as this would never have entered into the mind of the greatest poet who ever lived, except he had borrowed it from the Bible. All the best and noblest ideas in the poets they have borrowed from that source. The thought here is that there is none who can resist God—that no power on earth can oppose Him. The powers of this earth—that is, all under heaven are as nothing before Him. He is the Creator—they are the creatures, and they cannot withstand Him, who is above all.