WHAT GOD CANNOT DO

WHAT GOD CANNOT DO

"Behold I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard
for Me?" (Jeremiah 32:27).

Does this mean that God will do anything you ask? Probably not.
God's omnipotence is His ability to do all His character will permit Him
to do. You can be thankful there are some things God just won't do
because they are out of harmony with His moral nature.
God will not look on your sin with approval. Habakkuk 1:12-13 says,
"Are You not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? ... You are
of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness."
God's power won't approve of your sin because His character won't permit
Him to do so.
Also, God will not be tempted to do evil Himself. James 1:13, "Let no
one say when he is tempted, 'I am tempted by God'; for God cannot be
tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone." God doesn't have
the power to be tempted to do evil. That's why you can trust His
character. When you want God to do something that is out of character
for Him, He won't do it, and that should encourage you.
Besides this, God cannot lie. To Titus the apostle Paul wrote that he
was an apostle "according to the faith of God's elect and the
acknowledgement of the truth which accords with godliness, in hope of
eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began"
(Titus 1:1-2). That means you can trust God and His Word to always tell
you the truth. You may not like what He tells you, but you can be
certain it will always be true.
God is not hampered by inability but sometimes He is deterred by His
character. If He delays in solving your problems, it's not because He
lacks the power to do something about them. Rather, it's because He
possesses the wisdom to care for them in the right time and in the right
way, neither of which may be evident yet.
Rejoice that God is omnipotent, but be equally glad that He is
omniscient, all-knowing. Without the combination of the two, you would
have a God with strength but no character, power with no convictions.
Fortunately, our God has both. Thank Him for who He is today.

Dr. Woodrow Kroll

Scripture Reading: Daniel 3-4; 1 John 5

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Great quote: "The Son is 'given' to us by dying for us and being buried
for us. That I take it is a miracle. If you are astonished and regard it
as incredible that a man must be born anew, this greater wonder must
amaze you still more. God loved a poor sinner so much that He gave him,
not an angel or a prophet but His only Son. The way of His giving was
that He might be crucified. This you must learn; and after you have
learned it and beheld these wonderful things, your heart will feel
constrained to say, 'This is truly miraculous! How is it possible?' But
if you can accept it and believe it, you will conclude, 'After all, if
God's Son is the cure and remedy for sin and death, why should I be
surprised since I know that God's Son is greater than sin, the devil and
my death?" Martin Luther