God Is Able

The Bible portrays God as omnipotent - all-powerful, able even to create all things from nothing. The writer of the Letter to Hebrew believers states:that: "By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear." (11:3). The individual is portrayed as totally insufficient to do anything but fail. Yet the Bible also teaches that great things will be done in, and through, and to us. How can this be? It is only through God's power and wisdom that anything of substance will be accomplished. He alone is able. Consider the following sampling of tasks He is able to perform for us. 

God is able to do the work of salvation in a believer's heart. "[The Lord Jesus - Who is God]  is able for all time to save those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them." (Heb. 7:25). We can entrust that salvation for eternity, Jude writes: ".. to Him Who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of His glory with rejoicing," (Jude 24).

 

In this life we will have physical needs, and included in a passage on the obligation we have to give so that others' needs will be met, is Paul's claim that: "God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work." (II Cor. 9:8). Furthermore, He alone is able to equip us for service. "I thank Him Who has given me strength for this, Christ Jesus our Lord, because H judged me faithful by appointing me to His service," (I Timothy 1:12).

His able ministry toward us does not stop in this life, for He "will change our lowly body to be like His glorious body, by the power which enables Him even to subject all things to Himself." (Phil. 3:21). Indeed, He "is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think." (Eph 3:20).