Sep 22, 2019
God said to Abraham, "I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless" (Gen 17:1). The Psalmist declared, "Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases" (Psa 115:3). The power of God is His ability to do everything and anything He purposes to do.
In his massive book, The Existence and Attributes of God, Stephen Charnock (1628-1680) wrote: "The power of God gives activity to all the other perfections of his nature. . . . How vain would be his eternal counsels, if power did not step in to execute them! . . . As holiness is the beauty [of all God's attributes], so power is the life of all his attributes in their exercise" (Charnock, Attributes, 2:15).
We see God's power reflected in the creation of and the sustaining of the universe. In all the purposes for God's use of His power, two grand purposes stand out: (1) eternal life for those who believe in Christ, and (2) eternal penalty for those who reject Christ.
God is able to save Christians from the power of death and hell and, at the resurrection, to raise their bodies from the grave in an eternal form. It is in the power of God that the longing of our souls to live forever is satisfied.
On the other hand, one day the Almighty will stand up against all those who rebel against Him and will consume them with the power of His wrath. And because God is omnipotent, there will be no escape … forever. The only refuge there is from the power of God's wrath is the power of His love, which He has displayed in His Son.