December 13/14/Weekend

Written by Bill Grandi on December 14th, 2019

I started writing this on Friday, the 13th, but found myself having to leave the house for some lab work before it was finished so I thought I would finish it this morning and then post for the whole weekend.

My title for this devotion is Big God vs Little god.

Sometimes we see God as little. We hogtie Him with our unbelief. We minimize Him with our small thinking. We limit Him with our inability (or is unwillingness) to trust.

In my reading of Jeremiah I can came across 2 passages which piqued my thinking. The first is found in Jer.32:16-19.  This is simply a prayer of praise Jeremiah expresses. But notice what he says about God: “It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.” (emphasis mine).

How’s that for blowing apart an unbelieving, small thinking and limiting view of God? It sort takes that little god and shoves him right out the window.

But that is not all. Those were words of a prayer of Jeremiah’s. How about from God’s own mouth? Same chapter, verse 27 we read: “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything to hard for me? (emphasis mine again).

One from Jeremiah. One from God Himself. And both are saying the same thing!! There is nothing too hard for God. That has so many applications for us. So many I don’t even need to reiterate them. You can do that yourself.  The important idea to remember and take to heart is that we serve a great big, powerful God who dwarfs any attempt to discard His abilities or tempted to put Him in a box.

“Father, you are so much bigger than I can fathom. Help me not to be one who tries to limit You or box You in by my unbelief, minimizing,  small-thinking, or the inability to trust You. Help me to trust the One who says there is nothing too hard for Him.”

I’m going to be a little out of character for this blog. I’m asking you to check out this video. This is the one that came to mind when I wrote this.

 

3 Comments so far ↓

  1. PETRA! Hallelujah! And Amen to your post, Bill!

  2. Nothing is too hard for our God – He is too big to fail!
    Blessings, Bill!

  3. floyd says:

    I love those type of verses. It echoes Job. I like the sarcasm. It makes such a powerful point. “Where were you when I marked out the boundaries of the earth?”

    He is the power behind every breath, perpetual motion, the sun and stars. He is to be honored with reverence.

    Thanks for the wonderful reminder.