GOD IS A BIG GOD

Sunday is Father's Day. I was just thinking how children look up to their fathers, at least in most cases. They think their dad can do just about anything. To them he is a "big" man. When they grow up they see him in a more realistic light. Our earthly fathers may not be as "big" as we once thought, but our Heavenly Father never gets smaller. In fact, as we grow older we understand more and more how big and how powerful He is.


Charles Allen in his little book entitled All Things Are Possible Through Prayer, says the trouble with a lot of people is their God is too small. Many times they don't really believe that God can take care of them like He says He will. He tells the story of a man in New York who died at the age of seventy. As a young man he married and opened a little shop on a side street. He and his wife lived in a tiny apartment on the East side. Six mornings a week he would get up, eat his breakfast, walk to the subway station and ride to his work. All day long he spent in his shop. Because he never had another clerk, he carried his lunch from home and ate on the job.


At closing time he would catch the subway back, eat his supper and soon go to bed. He was never a strong man so he rested in bed every Sunday. For fifty years that was his routine and then he died. When that man said "My city," he meant a tiny apartment, a subway train, and a shop on a side street. He never saw the Metropolitan Museum, or rode to the top of the Empire State Building, or mingled with the crowds on Fifth Avenue. "My city" was for him a very limited experience.


Personally I don't want my God to be limited to a small area of my life like New York was limited in the life of that man.


Charles Allen goes on to ask the question: When you say "My God," what do you mean? For St. Paul, "My God" meant one great enough to cover his entire life -- great enough to supply his every need. (Philippians 4:19) 


Now the question is: How big is your God?


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