How Big Is Your God?
Some unanswered questions of David L Lewis
Part I
At noon Elijah began to taunt them. “Shout louder!” he said. “Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.” I Kings 18.27, KJV
Whatsoever you divine truth, purpose, and balance in life;
Whatsoever you define as peace and security amid turmoil and trouble;
Whatsoever you devote thereto time, effort, and wealth to support;
Whatsoever you defend without limit, recourse to evidence or testimony;
Therein determines how big is your divinity.
How Big Is Your God if it’s His Universe?
One of my best scenes in any movie is the last 20 seconds of “Men in Black”. The heroes go through a lot of stuff to save the “universe”. The universe turns out to be nothing more than a glass marble in the hands of some gigantic being who is playing with several such “universes”.
Some years ago I led a study on the majesty of Jehovah. I opened the class with the following: “Everything you know, everyone you’ve met, everything that has ever happened in your life, the world and all that is therein, God created ten minutes ago.” Don’t believe that? Neither did they, nor do I. Perhaps such a concept is inconceivable. But, try to conceive of God (whatever be His name) bigger than just one universe and unlimited by mere time. So, how big is your God if it’s His universe?
How Big Is Your God If That Child is Really His Child?
We drove 500 miles to enter him in college. As I left him standing there I knew the way through the wilderness he’d entered, but I could not go with him nor make him know what was ahead. This is the way must be with parents entrusted with a child for a season: We watch them grow, we treat their often self-inflicted wounds, we try to teach what they must learn for their selves, sometimes we cry as they are laid in a grave which was supposed to be our own. As my mother put it, the hardest thing a parent is called upon to do is to let go of their child and give them back to God. So, how big is your God if that child is Really His?
How big is your God? Just asking for some future generation,
TheObservantServant!
Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench. When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, “The Lord—he is God! The Lord—he is God!” (I Kings 18.39, KJV)
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