OUR GOD IS ABLE
At the center of the Christian faith is the conviction that there is a God of power who is able to do exceedingly abundant things in nature and in history.
ONLY HUMANITY IS ABLE?
There are those who seek to convince us that only humanity is able. Their attempts to substitute a human centered universe for a God centered universe is not new.The laboratory began to replace the church, and the scientist became a substitute for a prophet.
Science and technology have enlarged our human bodies. The telescope and television have enlarged our eyes. The telephone, radio and microphone have strengthened our voice and ears. The automobile and airplane have lengthened our legs. The wonder drugs have prolonged our lives. Have not these amazing achievements assured us that only humanity is able?
PROBLEM OF EVIL
At times other forces cause us to question the ableness of God. The problem of evil, has always plagued the human mind. Of course much of the evil we experience is caused by our own folly, ignorance and also by the misuse of our God given freedom.
Beyond this I can only say that there is and always will be a mystery surrounding God. What appears at the moment to be evil may have a purpose that our finite minds are incapable of comprehending.
So in spite of the presence of evil , we shall not surrender the conviction that our God is able.
GOD IS ABLE TO SUSTAIN UNIVERSE
GOD IS ABLE TO SUBDUE ALL POWERS OF EVIL
In affirming that God is able to conquer evil, we admit the reality of evil. Christianity has never dismissed evil as illusory, or an error of the mortal mind. It reckons with evil as a force that has objective reality. But Christianity contends that evil contains the seeds of its own destruction.
The Hitlers and the Mussolinis had their day, and for a certain period they may wield great power, but soon they are cut down like the grass and wither as the green.
Colonialism, swept across Africa and Asia. But th end the quiet, invisible law began to operate. The wind of change began to blow. In a period of less than fifteen years, independence swept through Asia and Africa releasing more than 1,500,000 people from colonialism.
More recently a similar fate swept away the empire of Soviet communism, freeing nation after nation in Eastern Europe.Slavery was the shame of America. But as on the world scale,the wind of change began to blow. One event followed another to bring an end slavery.
These great changes are not mere political and sociological shifts. They represent the passing of systems that were born in injustice.Future generations will see that God is able to conquer the evils of history.
LET US GAIN NEW HEART
In our sometimes difficult road, we do not walk alone. God walks with us. God has placed within the very structures of the universe certain absolute moral laws. We can neither defy nor break them. If we disobey them, they will break us. The forces of evil may temporarily conquer truth, but truth will ultimately conquer.
GOD IS ABLE TO GIVE INTERIOR RESOURCES
To confront the trials and difficulties of life. Each of us faces circumstances in life which compel us to carry heavy burdens or sorrow. Our highest hopes are blasted and our noblest dreams are shattered.Admitting the weighty problems and disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. God is able to provide inner peace amid storms. “Peace I leave you.” This is the peace which surpasses all human understanding.
There is so much frustration in the world because we have relied on gods of science,pleasure, money…instead on God.Transitory gods are not able to save us or bring happiness to the human heart.
ONLY GOD IS ABLE
This would be an unbearable world were God to have only a single light, but we may be consoled that God has two lights: a light to guide us in the brightness of the day when hopes are fulfilled and circumstances are favorable, and a light that guides us in the darkness of the midnight when giants of gloom and hopelessness rise in our souls.
When our days become dreary with hovering clouds and our nights become even darker than a midnight, let us remember that there is a great benign Power in the universe whose name is God, and He is able to make a way out of no way, and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows.
