OMNIPOTENCE
Does omnipotence mean that God can do literally anything? No, that is not the meaning.
There are many things God cannot do. He cannot do what is self-contradictory or
nonsensical, like squaring the circle. Nor (and this is vital) can he act out of
character. God has a perfect moral character, and it is not in him to deny it. He cannot
be capricious, unloving, random, unjust, or inconsistent. Just as he cannot pardon sin
without atonement because that would not be right, so he cannot fail to be faithful and
just in forgiving sins that are confessed in faith and in keeping all the other promises
he has made. Moral instability, vacillation, and unreliability are marks of weakness, not
of strength: but God's omnipotence is supreme strength, making is impossible that he
should lapse into imperfection of this sort.
The positive way to say this is: though there are things which a holy, rational God is
incapable of intending, all that he intends to do he actually does. "Whatever the
Lord pleases he does" (Ps. 135:6). As when he planned the make the world, "he
spoke, and it came to be" (Ps. 33:9), so it is with everything that he wills. With
people "there's many a slip twixt cup and lip," but not with him.
James Packer, Your Father Loves You, Harold Shaw Publishers, 1986.
Nothing is too big for my God to accomplish, and nothing is too little for Him to use in accomplishing it!
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