He Is Able!
2 Chronicles 25:8-9
What
a great thought! He who is our God and Savior is a God with whom all things are
possible. He is able to do anything he will. Nothing is too hard for the Lord.
No problem is too great for him. When Amaziah thought that obedience to the
will of God was going to cost him a vast sum of money, the man of God said, “God hath power to help and to cast
down...The Lord is able to give thee much more than this.” What a word of
encouragement! Whatever it costs to do
the will of God, God is able to supply that and much more.
“Our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver
us from the burning and fiery furnace” (Dan.
After
he found out who God is, Nebuchadnezzar confessed, “Those that walk in pride, he is able to abase” (Dan.
John
the Baptist said to the proud religionists of his day, “God is able of these stones (Gentiles) to raise up children unto Abraham” (Matt.
3:9). God almighty can make the vilest of sinners
children of faith, heirs of his covenant, holy, and blessed with Abraham. None on earth are so lost that God cannot
save them! This same Lord God is “able
to destroy both body and soul in hell” (Matt.
The promises of God to his
saints in this world, arising from his gracious, omnipotent ability, are full
of comfort. As his
servant endures the trial of faith, it is promised, “Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand” (Rom.
14:4:). “And God
is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all
sufficiency in all things, may abound in every good work” (II Cor. 9:8).
Indeed, our puny minds are not capable of tapping the infinite resources of his
ability. Our God “is able to do
exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think” (Eph.
Don Fortner