HE
IS ABLE!
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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. 3:17), was the
confession of our noble brethren long ago to a persecuting monarch. And it is
true. Let no tempted, tried believer doubt it. God has chosen us in the furnace
of affliction; but he is able to deliver
us out of the furnace; and he will.
After
he found out who God is, Nebuchadnezzar confessed, “Those that walk in pride, he is able to abase” (Dan. 4:37). God knows how to bring sinners down. Blessed
is the proud sinner who has been marked by the finger of God to be brought
down. Before he exalts, he will abase. And if God brings you down into the dust
of humble repentance, it is that he may lift you up to glory by his grace.
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. 10:28). Let all men fear him. Yet, there is hope for sinners without
Christ, lost in sin and unbelief. “They
also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able
to graff them in again” (Rom. 11:23). Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
you are graffed into him by God’s almighty grace! Christ is “able also to save them to the uttermost
that come to God by him” (Heb. 7:2;5).
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. 3:20). He “is able to subdue all things unto himself” (Phil. 3:21). “He is able to keep that which (we) have committed unto him” (II Tim. 1:12).
“He is able to succour them that are
tempted”(Heb. 2:18). Yes, the Son of God runs to the aid of his tempted and
tried people! And “he is able to keep you
from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory
with exceeding joy” (Jude 24).
Grace Baptist Church of Danville - Grace For
Today Radio Message #617
2734 Old Stanford Road -
Danville, Kentucky 40422-9438
Donald S. Fortner, Pastor -Telephone 606-236-8235 - Email grace@mis.net