God Is Here; God Is Now

"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." (Psalm 90:12)

It is a wonderful thought that God has already lived all of our tomorrows. God has no yesterdays and no tomorrows. The Scriptures say, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever" (Hebrews 13:8), but it's not His yesterday - it's yours and mine. Jesus Christ the Lord is the One who came out of Bethlehem, out of Judea, whose goings forth have been even from everlasting. He can't have yesterdays and tomorrows, because yesterday is time and tomorrow is time, but God surrounds it all and God has already lived tomorrow. The great God who was present at the beginning when He said, "Let there be" and there was, is also now present at the end, when the worlds are on fire and all creation has dissolved and gone back into chaos - and only God and His redeemed saints remain. Remember that God has already lived our tomorrows.

The Scripture says in Psalm 90:12 that because God is eternal, we must learn "to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." God is in our today because God was in our yesterday and will be in our tomorrow. God is! And because God is, then God is here and God is now. God dwells in an everlasting and eternal now.

Lord, You are eternal, but I am of now. Teach me to number my time-oriented days, so I might use them wisely. Amen

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Omnipotent and Almighty

"And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude ... and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth." Revelations 19:6)

I suppose the first thing to do would be to define omnipotence. It comes, of course, from "omni", meaning "all", and "potent", meaning "able to do and to have power." And so omnipotent means "able to do all and to have all power." It means having all the potency there is.

Then we come to a second word, "Almighty". Now that means exactly the same thing as omnipotent. "Almighty" means "having an infinite and absolute plenitude of power." When you use the words infinite and absolute you can only be talking about one person - God.

There is only one infinite Being, because infinite means without limit. And it is impossible that there should be two beings in the universe without limit. So if there is only one, you are referring to God. Even philosophy and human reason, as little as I think of them, have to admit this.

God has power and whatever God has is without limit; therefore, God is omnipotent. God is absolute and whatever touches God or whatever God touches is absolute; therefore, God's power is infinite; God is Almighty!

What assurance to know I rest in the arms of an all-powerful God. Halleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigns! Amen

~A. W. Tozer~