God is Able

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21

How often do you face impossible situations where you see no solution or no way out? Do you turn to God first at those times or do you exhaust your own resources before finally resorting to prayer? We can fully trust that God is fully able to fully resolve impossible situations. Consider these scenarios that attest to God’s ability:

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Now the earth was formless and empty… Genesis1:1-2a

God created something out of nothing – not just something, the heavens and the earth – the entire universe!

15 God also said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. 16 I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
17 Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, "Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?" Genesis 17:15-17
1 Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. 4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6 Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me." 7 And she added, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age." Genesis 21:1-7

God opened the barren womb of an aged woman, bringing laughter where there had been pain for so many years.

9 The Egyptians—all Pharaoh's horses and chariots, horsemen and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea… 10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD... 15 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. 16 Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground… 21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, 22 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left…30 That day the LORD saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians…Exodus 14

The Israelites were in an impossible situation: the Red Sea was in front of them and Pharaoh’s mighty army was behind them. There was no way out! Don’t let the familiarity of this story rob you of the impact of the miraculous deliverance of God. There was no way out. Nothing man could have conceived would have saved the Israelites. Nothing nature could have conjured up would have saved the Israelites. It took God – the creator of all things – to cause that which he created to defy its own created properties of gravity, fluidity, and liquidity in order to provide the way out.

Many times I have stood at the figurative shores of the Red Sea with Pharaoh’s army closing in on me. Time after time, as I have given these impossible situations over to God, He has delivered me in ways that I could not have conceived. Time after time I have delighted in His provision of an escape route, which often was a route right through the problem – much like the Israelites’ route was right through the barrier that prevented their escape to safety.
What is your Red Sea today? Do you trust that God is able to provide a way out? Believe, my friend, that He is more than able. Place your trust fully in His full ability to fully deliver you from whatever circumstances are threatening you. And be ready to be pleasantly surprised because His escape route will surprise you, and He will do immeasurably more than all you ever asked or even imagined to ask. To Him be the glory forever and ever! Amen!