Thursday, May 30, 2013
Genesis 17:1 ... I am God Almighty ...
ALMIGHTY
In the Athanasian Creed we confess this about our God: "... the Godhead of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit is one: the glory equal, the majesty coeternal. ... the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, the Holy Spirit almighty; and yet there are not three Almighties but one Almighty."
Is it true that there is nothing our God cannot do? That is what the children's song says:
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty,
There's nothing my God cannot do.
He who made the sun, moon, and stars, and placed the planets in their orbits -- there is nothing our God cannot do.
He who spared not His own Son, but gave Him up for us all on the cross at Calvary that we might be counted "not guilty" and freed from the everlasting punishment our sins deserved -- there is nothing our God cannot do.
He who was able to take man like Saul, a violent persecutor of Christians, and change his heart that he might become the greatest missionary of Christ who ever lived and writer of many New Testament books -- there is nothing our God cannot do.
He who could take you, an enemy of God at your birth, and wrap His arms around you and make you His own dear child -- there is nothing our God cannot do.
He who can make the nations of the earth rise or fall, who says, "Call upon me in the day of trouble," and at the same time says, "All things work together for good to them that love Me." -- there is nothing our God cannot do.
Almighty indeed!
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation!
O my soul, praise Him, for He is thy Health and Salvation!
Join the full throng; Wake, harp and psalter and song;
Sound forth in glad adoration!
(The Lutheran Hymnal, 39:1)
