The All Sufficient One (May 12, 2013)

Gen 17:1 And when Abram was 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. 

What seems like a simple line of scripture in Gen 17:1 is filled with promise! In appearing to Abram God calls Himself the "Almighty God." The Hebrew words are "El Shaddai" meaning "the powerful and all sufficient God." God then commands Abram to walk before Him (live habitually with your face turned to Me) and be perfect (blameless, whole, without blemish).
God is telling Abram that He is all sufficient and powerful, the means for Abram to walk before Him and be perfect. This is true for us, as it was for Abram. We are called to live for God, but we can only doing this through His sufficiency. For this life God has called us to live, He supplies all that's needed to live for Him as we keep our faces turned to Him.

Mat 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Keep my [spiritual] eyes single on You, Lord!