Ephesians 3:20 “Now unto
him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according
to the power that works in us.”
I’ve heard it said that we often
tend to bring the image of infinite God down to our finite mind’s size. But one
article rightly clarifies that the Bible (the Word of God) portrays God as
omnipotent—all-powerful, able even to create all things from nothing, speaking them
into existence. The fallen 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? 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. “Wherefore
[God] is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him,
seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7:25). We can
entrust that salvation for eternity “unto
him that is able to keep [us] from falling, and to present [us] faultless
before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy” (Jude 1:24).
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 make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always
having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work” (2 Corinthians 9:8). Furthermore, He
alone is able to equip us for service. “I
thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me
faithful, putting me into the ministry” (1 Timothy 1:12).
His able ministry toward us
does not stop in this life, for He “shall
change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body,
according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto
himself” (Philippians 3:21). As our text Ephesians 3:20 teaches, He “is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.”
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