God is Able

A point that is often missed, not only in this current time, but in all times since creation, is that God is able.  Sometimes people (perhaps being silly) ask whether God could create a stone which would be too heavy for Him to pick up. In Jeremiah (who was a contemporary to Daniel) God asks “Is there anything to hard for me?” (Jer. 32:27).  Certainly this was a rhetorical question, because God had proven Himself time and time again.  Nevertheless, some people often resort to trivial and futile means to place limits upon God.  However, it is not really the non-Christians that should be worried about, but rather the Christians who limit God.  What effect does such doubt have on their faith?  It is devastating!  There are all too many Christians today that doubt the power of their God.  It must be asked then, do they really believe in Him?  In James chapter five, the Bible says “the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much”.  Why? Because of their own power?  No, but because of the power of God!  However, God demands that a person pray ‘believing they will receive’ and ‘nothing wavering’ (Matt. 21:22, James 1:6).  Again, God is able, but if a person’s faith does not “measure up” and cause that person to believe in the ability of their God, then they are asking in vain.  Consider Abraham.  In many places the Bible states that “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”.  It was in fact the faith of Abraham that allowed God to do all that He did with Abraham.  Jesus declared that faith that is even ‘as a grain of mustard seed’ is a powerful faith.  

            Another problem in this time is that of material blessings.  Truly people think that they have gone out and worked and provided well for themselves, when in all actuality, they were blessed by God with their possessions.  No wonder then that the Bible commands people to ‘give as they have been prospered’!  As for God being able, consider 2nd Corinthians 9:8 “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.”  God is able!