Just before his hundredth birthday God reveals Himself to Abraham as “Almighty God”. This is the first time in scripture the Lord makes Himself known by this name. An old puritan said, “One Almighty is more than all mighties.”
It is important for those who are in impossible situations, as the old patriarch was, to know God by this name. The name refers to potency, and this potency is combined with promise; thus, it becomes the ground of faith.
So we see it was because of this Divine title that the old man believed the Omnipotent One was able to perform all He had promised. He found that at the end of self was the beginning of God. When we come to this point in our lives, we also will see the Almighty performing mighty things on our behalf!
God demands the impossible of us all. But as Samuel Chadwick said, “With God, all that a man ought to be, he can be; all that he ought to do, he can do.” I like the way Augustine put it, “Give what Thou commandest, the command what Thou wilt.”
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