The God
Who Is Enough
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President of the Bible Institute ■ of Los Angeles
If your heart is full of fear in these “trou blous days." you will be renewed in faith and reassured in mind by this helpful mes sage.
Sequoia, Tosemite National Park, Calif. Photo by George R. King
"And when Abram has ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect ”— Genesis 17:1. T HERE are many names in the Scriptures given to and length, and breadth, and height in it as this Hebrew word, “El Shaddai,” which means “The God who is enough.” The Lord came to Abraham with this revela tion of Himself after he had been out of communion for thirteen years. He got out of fellowship with God when he fell from the platform of simple faith in God, con cerning the birth of the promised son, to the lower level of human experience. We learn from the preceding chapters that Sarah
indulged hopes that a little lad might gladden the home, but after a while hope deferred gave birth to despair and she suggested that Hagar might be taken to wife. From that evil day, trouble hung like a cloud over the patriarchal home, communion with God ceased, and for thirteen years Abraham wandered from place to place, a disappointed, dissatisfied, and despairing man. Then God appeared to him once again when he was ninety- nine years old, with this healing, heartening, and restor ing message, "Abraham, you have been unduly influ enced by the unbelief of your home; but I am El Shad dai—the God who is enough—and once you get that down into your heart, you will get your eye off circum- T H E K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS
God, each of them with a different shade of mean ing, but I question whether any one of them is freighted with quite as much meaning or has such depth,
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