"Our" Almighty God

"And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God..."

Abraham was the first person God ever appeared to (Adam heard His voice). It occurred, as A.W. Pink writes, "in his old age, when nature's force was spent and death was written on the flesh." It is at this time in his life El Shaddai, the all-sufficient God, makes a promise to this aged saint. A promise that was impossible to fulfill apart from God's mighty power. As someone has so aptly said, "When God is getting ready to preform the impossible, He takes an impossible man or woman and crushes them." Both Abraham and Sarah could vouchsafe this truth.

It is when "all hope is taken away," God does His best work. During such times, we are to "hope against hope"; for "He is our hope." This was not only true in Abraham's case, but in other lives also, Job being one. The old patriarch, in his boxed-in predicament, refers to God no less than thirty-one times as, "The Almighty."  It's said of the former, we are to "follow in his steps," and of the latter, to take as an, "example." Therefore, their "Almighty God" is ours also. As Jesus said, "I ascend unto...to my God, and your God."

To believe He is "Almighty God," brings a deep, settling peace and assurance to one's soul. To see this All-mightiness accomplished in the lives of others is nothing short of awesome amazement. But to personally experience Almighty God working on my behalf, well, that is joy unspeakable and full of glory! O, blessed be our God, who, as Oswald Chambers says, "Has power to create new things in an old world."

"Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints."