God Is Able

I seriously can't believe I haven't posted on this yet!

Anyway, on the way to the outdoor conference track meet in the spring, I was reading the Bible and the phrase God is able kept leaping off the page. I knew then that the Lord wanted to get it through my thick skull, that no matter what I could or could not do, He could do more, and better.

Ever since then, I've found myself meditating on that phrase. Working on a tough paper - God is able to provide wisdom and focus. Navigating the waters of a sometimes muddy home life - God is able to heal. Struggling through a hard run - God is able to give strength and endurance. Completely exhausted -God is able to restore me. Full of stress - God is able to grant me peace. Overwhelmed by the sin in my life - God is able drown me in grace. Feeling alone - God is able to comfort me, love me, and provide blissful companionship. In all ways, in all things, the Lord our God is able. His love is able, His grace is able. He is able.

This summer, Hillsong came out with the God Is Able album. I could honestly listen to the title track all day. The God who hand-crafted the world and everything and everyone in it came down and lived a perfect life while walking among us. Jesus was tested and tried in every way, yet lived to be the perfect sacrifice - a pure Lamb slain as a sin offering. And Christ did something impossible. He rose from the dead. He forever conquered the powers of sin and death and has taken up a life inside of His people in the Holy Spirit.

Just today, I was trying to figure out how I was going to do everything the Lord has called me to do. But do you know what, it doesn't matter what I do in my strength. Because it is never going to stand up to what He can do. By residing in Him and His sovereignty, I too am able. I am able, solely because God is able.




Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Ephesians 3:20 (NLT)

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: 2 Corinthians 9:8