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How Big Is Your God? |
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Monday, January 05, 2009 |
A little boy was in a car with his father and mother as they headed to church. The curious boy began to do what most 5 year olds do; he began to ask his father a line of questions. He asked, daddy is God bigger than a car? His father replied yup. Then he asked, is God bigger than a tree? Yup his father again said. Is God bigger than a house? He sure is son, said his father. Finally he turns to his mother and asks “Mommy, is God bigger than target? His mother paused then responded, “are you talking about a target or super-target”?
For thousands of years many have asked the same question? How big is God? Maybe you’ve wondered how big God is. When you were going through a crisis you wondered if God is bigger than your crisis. Maybe it was when that bill came unexpectedly you wondered, is God bigger than your financial dilemma?
"How big is your God"?
In psalms 34 David seeing that the people of Israel’s perspective of God was starting to diminish, charges "oh magnify the Lord with me, let us exalt His name forever!.” The word "magnify" means to "enlarge" what David was saying is that we need to change our perspective of who God is. David also was saying not to make light of the wondrous power of God!
The problem is that when we ignore his awesomeness we begin to reduce God to such smallness that when we encounter trouble we forget that God is greater than any troubles that come your way. When the enemy comes against us, we need to do as that little boy did who’s father walked into his room and found him looking out the window through his binoculars. His father said "son you’re looking through those binocular the wrong way. Your not suppose to look out through the wide side but through the narrow side. But his son replied, "no dad, out there is a big bad bully and if I look at him through this side I make him look tiny.” That is what happens when we look at the enemy through God's perspective!
You see David was telling us that the only way to take down the giant in our lives was to magnify the Lord! The problem is that some of us don't see God in the right light. We see God as limited. We see God as powerless. We see God as a mere man. But I would like to declare that I serve a God that has all power, might and majesty! That there is nothing that my God cannot do! His ways are higher than our ways! His thoughts are greater than my thoughts! He is that Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the King of kings, the Lord of lords and that nothing and no one can compare to Him. Glory to God! Just as the days when David saw that the people overlooking God’s role in their lives and when we ignore God we mentally begin to limit Gods potential.
“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he that comes to God must Believe that that He is, and He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. “ Hebrews 11:6
But when God's people begin to see God with new perspective, we can begin to magnify God above and in spite of our problems. When we begin to study God's word it’s like hitting the enlarge button on a copier. The image of God gets bigger and bigger. When God's people begin to pray, our problems seem to become smaller and smaller. When God's people begin to truly worship Him, our perspective of God is magnified to a size that is greater than any circumstance we might find ourselves in. Understand our problems are not our main problem, but our perspective is our problem. Just because you’ve failed to see God as greater than your problem doesn't mean that He’s not able. Just because our cerebral cortex is limited when it comes to comprehending the awesome power of God, doesn't mean that his power is limited. You see God's might is not confined by our ability to believe, but our ability to believe is determined by our perspective. In one of the books of the chronicle of Narnia Lucy tells Aslan the lion the he has gotten bigger, in which Aslan responds that he had not, but that Lucy has gotten older. Then Aslan says every year you grow you will see me as bigger. So it is with our relationship with God as we grow in Christ we start to see Him bigger. Bigger than our problems, bigger than our troubles, bigger than our circumstances! In other words we start to see God as who He is.God Bless,
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