As another New Year now draws close, with all the many possibilities for clear and encouraging blessings and for the faith-stretching challenges that will inevitably come, in what or in whom shall we trust for our wisdom, our strength, our comfort, our security, our solace, our encouragement, our peace, our hope throughout 2013? Ray Ortlund points in the right direction with this timely quotation from Scottish Victorian scholar, Marcus Dods.
“I am the Almighty God, able to fulfill your highest hopes and accomplish for you the brightest ideal that ever my words set before you. There is no need of paring down the promise until it squares with human probabilities, no need of relinquishing one hope it has begotten, no need of adopting some interpretation of it which may make it seem easier to fulfill, and no need of striving to fulfill it in any second-rate way. All possibility lies in this: I am the Almighty God.”
Marcus Dods, The Book of Genesis (New York, 1902), page 161.
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