An Attribute of God Alone<\/b><\/p>\n
An attribute of God alone. It is the quality of having all power (Ps. 115:3). He can do all things that do not conflict with His holy nature. God has the power to do anything He wants to.<\/p>\n
Does omnipotence mean that God can do literally anything? No, that is not the meaning. There are many things God cannot do. He cannot do what is self-contradictory or nonsensical, like squaring the circle. Nor (and this is vital) can he act out of character. God has a perfect moral character, and it is not in him to deny it. He cannot be capricious, unloving, random, unjust, or inconsistent. Just as he cannot pardon sin without atonement because that would not be right, so he cannot fail to be faithful and just in forgiving sins that are confessed in faith and in keeping all the other promises he has made. Moral instability, vacillation, and unreliability are marks of weakness, not of strength: but God\u2019s omnipotence is supreme strength, making is impossible that he should lapse into imperfection of this sort.<\/p>\n
The positive way to say this is: though there are things which a holy, rational God is incapable of intending, all that he intends to do he actually does. \u201cWhatever the Lord pleases he does\u201d (Ps. 135:6). As when he planned the make the world, \u201che spoke, and it came to be\u201d (Ps. 33:9), so it is with everything that he wills. With people \u201cthere\u2019s many a slip twixt cup and lip,\u201d but not with him.<\/p>\n
Your Father Loves You by James Packer, Harold Shaw Publishers, 1986, page for May 7<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Nothing is too big for my God to accomplish, and nothing is too little for Him to use in accomplishing it!<\/p>\n
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