Genesis 17 Sufficient

I was reading in Genesis 17 and was struck with God's demand upon Abraham when he said, "I am God Almighty, walk before Me and be thou perfect." Why would God give any man such an unachievable standard to live by? When I find anomalies in the Scripture or passages that seem contrary to the character of God, I just can't let it go until I can find some resolve. So I opened the Bible and lo and behold I saw something that I hadn't see before. Before God tells Abraham to be perfect, he first tells him that He is God Almighty! God Almighty, means the all Powerful One—the all Sufficient One. You see, living perfectly depends "COMPLETELY on God's all sufficiency. What makes this interesting is what happened in Abraham's life in the previous two chapters—he took a second wife and had a child and COMPLETELY messed up his family! He lost sight of God's all-sufficiency.

What a lesson this is for me. Right now I am in the midst of a great trial…a testing of my faith in regard to the future of Lamplighter Theatre. The funding for this monumental project is beyond the scope of our resources, but I am reminded that "Faithful is he who calls you, who will also do it." Abraham's ability to have a child when he was 100 years old was God's challenge not Abraham's, because He's all-sufficient.