"And being fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was able also to perform…Now it was not written for his sake alone...But for us also..." ~ Rom. 4:21,23,24
Those familiar with the background leading up to this statement know the old man, Abraham, was in an impossible situation. But God delights in impossibilities. Apparently, the aged patriarch believed this to be true and was entirely convinced, “He was able…” He rested soulfully and wholly on the fact that whatever his Friend promised, He was more than able to perform.
And so it was and is with all God's prayer warriors. Moses said, "God is not a man, that he should lie...hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?" And Jeremiah pens, "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised." The aged, retired priest, Zacharias, still in the service of the Lord, told all his neighbors that God would "perform the mercy promised to our fathers."
When my children were small and I promised them something, I’d perform the doing of it. But there were times because of some unforeseen circumstance, I regretfully could not keep my pledge to them. But God is not under any such human limitations. And yet, as Oswald Chambers so aptly puts it, “We find it easier to trust to worms than to the God of truth.”
If you feel like a garment hanging from a clothesline, tossed to and fro by every wind, be assured it is your human reasoning causing you to be hurled about.
Intellectual improbabilities will dissuade one from belief in God’s performance of His promise, every time!
As one old divine puts it, "God is a gentleman, He is as good as His Word." O, my beloved, if your Sovereign God said it, then, as the saying goes, "You can take it to the bank!"
by an Aged Saint