Its impossible

Now let’s be controversial. All things are possible to God - I don't agree. He is unlimited – nope. He is a mighty God – that’s moot. Okay, He is omnipresent - that is as debatable.

It is “impossible” for God to violate His own principles, break His own laws, do evil, tempt us or do us harm. His purity is beyond human comprehension. Stomping on the devil was certainly possible to God, but it would have violated His integrity without the cross.

What He does for people is generally only possible through people, in terms of translating His heart into practical and tangible love. We are His hands and feet, though which His unseen heartbeat and headship are revealed.

As for mighty? Well He generally doesn’t reveal Himself that way. Indeed, Christ was the epitome of weakness on the cross, but the legal precedents set there removed the keys of death and hell and shook its foundations. Actually, most of the time, He is a still small voice, for as in creation it is His Word that transforms us.

So what about Omnipresence? Well there is a strange phenomenon in the way He operates. He establishes things, winds them up and lets them run, with minimal further intervention – as He did for the universe, the church and the family. Thus, if omnipresence means He is actively involved in every event that takes place under the sun, I don’t see it. 

(c) Peter Missing @ bethelstone@gmail.com