“And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty…”
(Ex. 6:3)
Question, “Do you know Almighty God?”
Answer, “I know God.”
Questioner, “I didn’t ask you that. I asked, Do you know ‘ALMIGHTY’ God?”
The godly trio mentioned in our text could have answered this inquiry in the affirmative. Acquaintance does not guarantee apprehension. A child may know his or her father and yet be unaware of his power — being a black-belt karate expert.
Abraham knew God’s Almightiness by the fact that He took a humanly impossible situation and made it possible; Isaac knew his Almighty God in the case of Him blessing his sowing by giving him returns of one hundredfold (the only person this is said of); and Jacob, what did he know of Almighty God? He saw Him take a life that others would have given up on and make him into a Prince with God!
God was never hesitant to say of these men, in spite of their human frailties, “I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB.” As the writer of Hebrews tells us of the likes of these saints, “God is not ashamed to be called their God.” Why? Simply because such are not ashamed of Almighty God! They believe, within the confines of His Will and Word, there is nothing too hard for God! They, like David, believe the adage, “The bigger they come the harder they fall.”
An Old Disciple
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