8.31.9 "How Great is Your God?"

"How Great is Your God?"

Job 37:1-39:30
2 Corinthians 4:13-5:11
Psalm 44:8-26
Proverbs 22:13

Have you ever seen a cartoon where someone's getting yelled at, and they shrink down to a miniature person? I think I saw that when Mr. Slate was chewing out Fred Flintstone. Have you ever been in that situation where you've felt that way? The summer before we moved here I worked construction. It was hard work! My first day of work I ate my lunch before 9:00! I didn't quite get the whole construction thing, so I had to be taught everything. The second day of work I was told to go around an pull all the nails out of the forms of the footings for a house. There was one nail that was sticking out of the cement in a weird place. Oh well, I was told all of the nails... Well I soon learned that there's one nail that is used to sight up the whole house to make sure everything's square. They had to send the whole crew home while they re-measured the whole site. It was one of those lessons I learned as I was shrinking!

That's nothing in comparison to the questions God asks Job. Job & his three buddies have been pontificating on their opinions of why Job is going through all this trouble. The Lord answers Job in a whirlwind: "Now get ready to fight, for I am going to demand some answers from you, and you must reply." (Job 38:3) ... GULP!.... That would make me a little nervous! (even more than hearing from across the job site, "WHO PULLED OUT THIS NAIL?!?"

God's questions aren't the easiest to answer. "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much. Do you know how its dimensions were determined, and who did the surveying? What supports its foundations, and who laid its cornerstone, as the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?" (38:4-7) I picture that it's one of those situations where Job probably didn't even open his mouth to answer. I imagine if he even said, "well I..." the legacy of Job would be just a little grease spot on the ground.

The questions the Lord asks are more rhetorical than anything, but I would STRONGLY encourage you to read these two chapters. The Lord asks everything from the source of light to who gives intuition and instinct, to watching the birth of mountain goats, and the nesting of eagles.

When you really consider how great our God is, not only do we become small, our troubles do, too. One of the reasons we worship is to give God his proper place of Lordship in our life. With him on the throne, everything else seems to take care of itself. This is why scripture tells us to rejoice through suffering. It causes us to get through.

Paul says in 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, "That is why we never give up. though our bodies are dying, our inner strength in the Lord is growing every day. These troubles and sufferings of ours are, after all, quite small and won't last very long. Yet this short time of distress will result in God's richest blessing upon us forever and ever! So we do not look at what we can see right now, the troubles all around us, but we look forward to the joys in heaven which we have not yet seen. The troubles will soon be over, but the joys to come will last forever."

If you don't need to hear this today, someone near you does! This is reality! Our God is awesome! There are incredible things in store for those who trust in Him! Do you realize what keeping this perspective can do for you and those around you? We can actually look at every trouble that comes our way and give it a little smile and say, "Bring it on!" Next to our God EVERY trial is NOTHING! It's time to whoop it up! Get your D-LOW on! (Dynamic Lifestyle of Worship)

You tell me: How big is your trouble? How big is your God? Do the math!


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P Greg


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