Big God

Big God

He who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals his thoughts to man, who turns dawn to darkness, and treads the high places of the earth - the Lord God Almighty is his name. Amos 4:13 NIV

If you can believe it, I occasionally forget about the mass of God. He is more expansive than my imagination can possibly conjure. In fact, God is so immense that it is truly a very difficult proposition to get my mind wrapped around the expanse of his being and thoughts.

God sometimes seems small in my mind. I know I have tried to shrink God down to size when my prayers consist mainly of my desires, even if my thoughts are for good. My mind attempts to shrink Him when my primary focus is on what I think His duty is towards me. Sometimes I think that God might be sort of a slacker, He may not be living up to His potential. And the only thing that will cause Him to do what is necessary is to “pray” Him into action... And this is the mind set of either a depraved person or a person that has forgotten the sheer size of God the Father. Consider this; we can't even process how much is on God's mind, much less the work of His hands or even the plans He has for us. In Psalm 139 the author says that if I tried to count His thoughts about me (just one person), they would outnumber the grains of sand! And the scripture goes on to rhetorically ask, "Who has given counsel to God?" (I Corinthians 2:16) In other words, do you have such a mind as to be able to give God advice?

The fact is that I can't think God's thoughts until I have the Spirit of God residing in me. I can't correctly approach the Father until I have entered His presence with praise and a right attitude. And I admit that after I have grasped a proper perspective, in my mind, God grows to something beyond infinity.

When we pray, we should take a moment to contemplate the reality of God. He is the one that makes mountains, creates wind and reveals His mind and heart to mankind. He is the one that knows where darkness and light lives and walks them home. He keeps a storehouse of snow, hail and lightning and knows if rain has a father (Job 38). And this great God has cast His eye and heart upon me... upon you.