Big God

Isaiah 55:8-9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.”

Those of you that know me well, know that I am a stubborn,determined, bull-headed, I can do anything I put my mind to guy. I don’t know if I like the challenge, or the competition, or inner competition of proving to someone else or myself that I can do something. I don’t do anything half-hearted, and I honestly have a problem with people that do. I am driven, and I am a “product” of the American dream that I can do anything; but I have been humbled by my God to the point of being in awe of just how small I am in recent years. “I stand amazed” is a statement I heard early in my walk, and it has stuck with me; my God leaves me in awe.

When my God reveals just minute particles of himself to me in countless ways, my mind cannot comprehend or articulate the complexity of what I have experienced in that small tidbit of God. I think of when God spoke to the prophet Jeremiah personally, but this same promise is to all of us that will seek Him with our whole heart; love him with our whole heart. Jeremiah 33:3 Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know. I sit here this morning with the lightning storm outside my window and know that God is even in the storm. God is even in the storms of life; he uses the toughest times in our lives to draw us closer to Him. He either designs, or allows, the things we think we cannot handle, the things when we may question God, that can draw us closer to him as a result of them. When our little minds begin to grasp only a minute portion of Sovereignty; we can find him and peace in those storms.

God is in blessings; he will lay before you things that he had worked out from the start. You can try to plan your ways to them, but likely if you move before him you will the blessing from him. James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Every single thing in your life flows through God’s hands. All the good, and all the bad have passed through the allowance of God. You must rest in the knowledge of his Sovereignty; and the knowledge of how big your God is.

PS-Cut it short due to the lightning. 🙂