Tuesday, January 19, 2016

How big is your God?

           The idea for these ponderings is to look at a piece of scripture and remark. It’s that simple, but that complex.    
           We are currently in a five-part series looking at how much God can’t do so that we can delve all the things God CAN do.
       How many of you have heard the children’s song – My God is so Big?
"My God is so big, so strong and so mighty,
There’s nothing my God cannot do.
My God is so big, so strong and so mighty,
There’s nothing my God cannot do.
He made the trees
He made the seas
He made the elephants too.

My God is so big, so strong and so mighty, there’s nothing my God cannot do.
My God is so big, so strong and so mighty,
There’s nothing my God cannot do.
My God is so big, so strong and so mighty,
There’s nothing my God cannot do.
The mountains are His
The rivers are His
The stars are His handy work too.
My God is so big, so strong and so mighty,

There’s nothing my God cannot do."
When you're hurting, physically or emotionally or mentally, it's hard to think that way. That God is so big, so strong and so mighty when a snap of a finger of God would change everything.
So, we wonder why if the mountains are His and the river are His and the stars are his handy work, then why doesn't he are the tall mountains are His then why doesn't He fix whatever is wrong with me?
Big, strong, mighty... but not here, right now, right then.
Or is He?
See, the thing about our thoughts and about His ways being different than our ways. First of all, his thoughts are organized. He doesn't fall apart when the skies skip a beat or the hips organize a sit-in. 
He is God. He is strong enough, big enough, wise enough, mighty enough, loving enough, to make all the brokenness go away.
The key, and the point of all this, is to let God be God and let us be us. And the twain shall meet.

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