God of the Impossible

Introduction

Is Anything too Hard for the Lord?

In Genesis 17, the Lord makes His covenant with Abram, renames him Abraham and tells him he will have a son from Sarah. In chapter 18 verse 13, the Angel of the Lord asks Abraham why Sarah laughs about having a child at 90 years old. Verse 14

Genesis 18:14 NKJV

14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”

Here are a couple things about God we see here:

God has a plan that is bigger than us. (Sovereignty)

Easton’s Bible Dictionary: The Sovereignty of God is His absolute right to do all things according to His own good pleasure

Tozer describes that God is complete within Himself. He is Self-sustaining. That means he needs nothing outside Himself to exist. He also takes pleasure in Himself as a Sovereignty over everything. Lastly, He take pleasure in what He made (including you and me)

God’s plan spans all of time and eternity (Infinitude)

God’s plan is never early or late (Perfection)

“The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy of the Christian life has resulted from this one basic error in our religious thinking. With our loss of the sense of majesty has come the further loss of religious awe and consciousness of the divine Presence. We have lost our spirit of worship and our ability to withdraw inwardly to meet God in adoring silence. Modern Christianity is simply not producing the kind of Christian who can appreciate or experience the life in the Spirit. The words, “Be still, and know that I am God,” mean next to nothing to the self-confident, bustling worshiper in this middle period of the twentieth century.” (The Knowledge of the Holy, pg. vii)