How Big Is Your God?

People form their ideas about God from various sources: books, other people, their own fathers, movies, television, personal experiences, the internet, and yes, even the Bible. Imagine that! What about you?

How Big Is Your God?

Job thought he knew what God was like. Job was a good man, a man God described as one “of complete integrity” (Job 1:8, NLT). Even in immense suffering, Job didn’t curse God. He thought he understood God until his world caved in. But in the end, after his personal appointment with the Almighty God Himself, Job realized that his god had been too small.

How Big Is Your God?

Is He big enough to lay the earth’s foundation? (Job 38:4, NIV).

Is He strong enough to shut up the sea behind doors? (Job 38:-8, NIV).

Is He creative enough to design a snowflake or compose a heavenly symphony? (Job 38:6-7; 22, NIV).

Is He wise enough to know where light comes from and where darkness goes? (Job 38:19-20, NLT).

Is He powerful enough to tip over the water jars of heaven to soften the clods of earth? (Job 38:37-38, NIV).

Is He compassionate enough to feed the raven when its young cry out to God? (Job 38:41, NIV).

Is He loving enough to send His own Son to die, so you won’t have to? (John 3:16)

Is He tender enough to bless a child or hold a babe in His arms? (Mark 10:16, NIV).

What about You?

How big is your God…when the mortgage is due? When your friends have all left? When the doctor’s report is not good? When your child is being bullied? When your world collapses? When your faith has been attacked?

The same God who blessed Job in the end is the One who ordered his beginning. He has never changed. He never will. God is able, and God is bigger than you think.

Fill in this blank: God is____________ to ______________________.

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My Prayer for You

Lord, I have often reduced you to fit the size of my world, not Yours. What a powerful, wise, and personal God You are! Stretch us, Lord, and enlarge our view of who You really are. Help us see the magnificence of Your character. We are so small. Yet You love us–each one–as if we were Your only child. That’s huge! Thank You, God!

Book Giveaway Winner

I forgot to announce the winner last week of Judy Dippel’s book, Friendship Interrupted. The winner is Karen Atkins Milton. Winner for last week’s book giveaway, When You Need a Miracle, by Linda Evans Shepherd, is Alice Craig. Congratulations, winners! I hope you enjoy the books.

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