God Almighty

Genesis 17: 1-8 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless. 2 I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers." 3 Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, 4 "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. 5 No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. 6 I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. 7 I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8 The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God."

After thirteen years of silence God appears before Abram in a new revelation and with a new name- God Almighty. His appearance and new revelation is an indication that Abram has learned from his recent bitter experience with Hagar and Ishmael. God says in effect, “You have been learning for thirteen years the total inadequacy of your own efforts through Ishmael. Now learn a new thing about me. I am God almighty. You have discovered by sad experience how futile your plans and efforts can be without me. Now learn how capable I am to do everything that I desire to do, whenever I desire to do it.”

In this new light from God came a new demand from God. “Walk before me and be perfect, wholehearted, and blameless. Because I am God almighty and I am all-sufficient to make you blameless. Walk before me, therefore, and be blameless.”

We are so constantly trying to please two masters, to please self and Christ. We are quite content to serve Christ, if we can also serve self at the same time. But God says, “This can no longer be permitted. You have come to the place where your dual allegiance can no longer be tolerated. Walk now before me, appropriating what I am, and be wholehearted, be wholly on my side, be mine!” This is Christ asserting his practical Lordship in our lives.

Lord, I see that You are God Almighty. Teach me to submit all that I am and all that I hope for to you. Amen.

How Great is Our God!

There are four stars in our galaxy which can sum up how Big God is.

The first star is the most common, which is the sun and flares violently some 93 million miles away. Psalms 33: 6, by the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of His mouth all their host. God created the heavens, earth and all their hosts without lifting a single finger. His word and breath created our Universe.

The second star goes by the name of Betelgeuse and is 427 light-years away, or can be calculated into 5.88 trillion miles away. The size of this star is twice that of Earth’s orbit around the sun. To put into perspective yet again, if the earth were a golf ball, Betelgeuse would be the size of eight empire state buildings standing on top of each other. AMAZING! You could place 262 trillion golf ball sized earths inside Betelgeuse. Remember, this star was created from the breath of God.

Further out in our galaxy, the third star to mention goes by the name of Mu Cephei. This star happens to exist 3000 light-years away from Earth. If the Earth were a golf ball, Mu Cephi would be the width of two Golden Gate Bridges standing end to end. You could fit 2.7 quadrillion Earths inside Mu Cephei. To illustrate how much quadrillion is; a million seconds ago, was 12 days ago; a billion seconds ago, was May of 1979; a trillion seconds ago was 29,700 B.C.; a quadrillion seconds ago, was 30,800,000 years ago. This star is beyond imagination and again, it was all created from the breath of God.

Science has just brought us the largest star found in the universe and has called it Canus Majoris. If earth were a golf ball, Canus Majoris would be the height of Mt. Everest. You could fit 7 quadrillion Earths inside Canus Majoris. That’s enough golf balls to cover the state of Texas in golf balls 22 inches deep.

Understanding the magnitude of these stars should bring about an extremely shrinking feeling. However it’s a good shrinking feeling; because sin has a way of shrinking God down in our minds and puffing us up in our own estimation. But the size of the universe, which God created, should bring into perspective the size of our God, the one we worship, the unrivaled, the almighty, and powerful God where there is none like him. We are the tiny ones who are weak fragile and frail, and we are one of six and a half billion people who walk about this “golf ball” in this massive universe God breathed.

We are marked by majesty and created in the image of God, the one who created this massive universe has fashioned us in His image. Our massive God has promised us, for whoever trusts in Him, He will literally hold them in his hand and carry them all of the days of their life.