INSIGHT FOR TODAY WITH CHUCK SWINDOLL.
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The Topic of Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional 2nd June 2024 is “The Almighty One “.
Scriptures: Genesis 17:1
TODAY’S INSIGHT – 2ND JUNE 2024.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.’ Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life.” (Genesis 17:1)
THIRTEEN YEARS passed, and Abram didn’t hear anything from God. There was no vision. There was no voice. There was no visit. Only silence. Try to imagine: complete silence on God’s part for thirteen years.
Abram hadn’t handled the Lord’s earlier silence very well. After God’s first appearance in Ur, Abram had been talking rather regularly with Him. More than once, the Lord had appeared to Abram with reassurances. Around his seventy-ninth birthday, he’d met with God after a miraculous victory on the battlefield, but then he heard nothing for another six or seven years. Then when he was eighty-five, he and Sarai decided to implement their own plan.
When his decision to run ahead of God’s plan ended in spectacular failure, Abram came to a kind of end. As the expression goes, “he finally came to the end of himself.” While his longing for God’s promise remained front and center in his mind, he at last surrendered to God’s omniscient, sovereign care.
In this next encounter with God, Abram posed no questions and made no complaints about his long wait; he merely “fell on his face” (Genesis 17:3 NASB) before his divine Friend.
After thirteen years, the Lord broke the silence with a fresh reintroduction. When He appeared to Abram, He said, “I am El-Shaddai” (Genesis 17:1). A good paraphrase would be, “I am God . . . specifically, the almighty One.”
The straightforward message God communicated through this name after a long silence is the same one He wants us to know when He seems absent: While I am sometimes silent, I remain in control of your circumstances. The Lord said, in so many words, “I haven’t left; I’ve been here all along.”
REFLECT
Has there been a time in your life when God seemed silent? How has He shown Himself to you as the almighty One?
I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty.
2 CORINTHIANS 6:18
About Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional “Today’s Insight”.
Today’s Insight is written by Chucks Swindoll. Chuck Swindoll has devoted his life to the accurate, practical teaching and application of God’s Word and His grace. Since 1988 he has served as the founder and senior pastor-teacher of Stonebriar Community Church in Texas, but his listening audience extends far beyond a local church body. The radio broadcast of this devotional program has aired for more than 35 years. Read more.
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