HOW BIG IS YOUR GOD?
After God answered, Job’s final response was brief. He basically concluded, “You’re God and I’m not.” This is not fatalism, but acceptance. For even though God’s good purposes are higher and better than ours, He still hears us and responds when we cry out. God is not afraid of our hardest questions. Yet, be aware when you ask that you may learn as Job did that your arm’s are too short to box with God. Or that your intellect is too limited to understand. Are your questions motivated by a desire to know God better? Or are they really expressions of doubt or accusation? Suffering did not cause Job to doubt God. And God heard Job’s cry and answered him.
When we face difficult life situations, we can be reminded by Job that “God can do everything.” And by the apostle Paul, that in Christ, so can we, ” I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil. 4:13).
Our God is bigger than any circumstance that we face. It is our understanding and faith in Him that usually needs to be enlarged. Our God’s plans and purposes are bigger than ours. So we must hold our own plans loosely, praying, “Thy will be done.”
PRAYER: Dear Father, we believe, help us with our unbelief. For we sometimes see problems as too big to overcome, forgetting that You are able to do all things. Lord, we look to You now for today’s strength and wisdom. In Jesus’ name, amen.