Almighty God

Genesis 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.”

I read that this is the first of 48 occurrences of the designation of God by the term “Almighty” in the Old Testament. There are also nine times in the New Testament where God is called “Almighty,” plus once where He is called “omnipotent.” The last time it occurs is very near the end of the Bible, telling us that there is no special temple in the holy city, “But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple” - Revelation 21:22. Thus, in the first and last books of the Bible, and often in between, we are reminded that our God is an omnipotent God. As Jeremiah prayed; “‘Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.” – Jeremiah 32:17.

Abraham’s wife Sarah “laughed” when in Genesis 18:14, God said that she would bear a son in her old age, but God responded: “Is anything too hard for the Lord?”. Many years later, the angel told the Virgin Mary that she would have a son, and she said in Luke 1:34: “How shall this be?” The angel replied in Luke 1:37: “With God nothing shall be impossible”. Some things God cannot do, of course, for we are told in James1:13 “God cannot be tempted with evil” and told in Titus 1:2 that He “cannot lie”, so whatever He does is “right” and whatever He says is “true”.

Jeremiah 32:27 “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?”

The article concluded, God did create the cosmos in all its macroscopic complexity and all the living kinds with their microscopic complexity. He is omnipotent! We may not always understand just why He does or says something, but in eternity we shall learn that He was indeed able to do what He says. He is Almighty God!

Blessings