How Big Is Your God?
Just thought I'd share an excerpt from this week's message. You can get every message via email if you sign-up here.
Josiah is going through a fascinating phase right now. He keeps asking us how big God is. We were driving up the George Washington Parkway this week and Josiah said, "Dad, God is bigger than the cars right?" I said, "Yup." He said, "Dad, God is bigger than the trees right?" I said, "Yup."
But my all-time favorite is the question he asked Lora: "Mom, is God bigger than Target?" Lora said, "Josiah, do you mean Target or SuperTarget?" J/K.
God is bigger than SuperTarget!
I find this absolutely fascinating. Josiah is literally trying to figure out how big God is. He's four years-old and he's on a quantum quest to measure the transcendence of God. Must be a pastor's kid!
Now here's the thing. That question--how big is God--may be the most important question you ever ask or answer!
I think A.W. Tozer said it best: "A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils." But a person with a "high view" of God "is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems."
A small god is the cause of a hundred lesser evils!
A big God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems!
It is also the difference between scaredy-cats and lion chasers!
If your god is smaller than a 500 pound lion you'll run away! But if your God is bigger than two mighty Moabites, a giant Egyptian, and a 500 pound lion--you might just have the courage to chase!
Chase the Lion.
4 Comments:
Mark,
I finished your book today after recieving it last night! Thank you so much, it is a great book! I am planning to buy some copies for friends and family and and looking forward to reading it again many more times! CONGRATULATIONS!!
Megan, NCCer
Mark, if you keep posting great stuff like this, I'm just gonna have to buy your book! Hmm, maybe that's, er, the point. ;)
I lived my life for quite some time thinking of God as smaller (that is, more remote) than all the things I was doing or the problems I was having. It's only recently that I started getting an idea of just how immense God is, and my life is being completely transformed in the process. Whoa. It's an exciting, scary thing.
I was so encouraged by your message today! I'm also excited about reading your new book (btw, thanks for the free copy this morning) and hearing more stories and applications over the next six weeks. I'm new to NCC (just moved here in May) and am throroughly enjoying NCC (and DC!). I'm praying about where I should get involved and am excited about how God is moving. Thanks again for the encouraging sermon this morning. Happy Birthday, Mark!
And just think how infinitely small He can be too, but still just as powerful. Being big and small at the same time - that's hard to think about.
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