I had some situations this week that left me feeling overwhelmed and defeated. I wanted to give up and hide in bed to avoid people, tears, and stress. I didn’t intend to make things all about me, but I felt so discouraged.
I texted a trusted friend and started to write
—-It’s too big
Before I hit send, I heard —it’s not too big for God.
And it’s not. I thought of a book I read long ago called When People are Big and God is Small. I don’t remember everything about the book, but it talks about what happens when we magnify our problems rather than magnifying our God.
I’ve spent the last few days reminding myself that God is in control and that he is much bigger than I can even imagine. I’ve listened to How Big is God? multiple times and felt encouraged. Will you listen to it and come back and tell me if it encouraged you too?
One of the situations concerning me had a much better outcome than I anticipated, and others are ongoing.
My perspective change allows me to feel all the feelings, but I am reminded to trust God and know he is listening to my prayers. He is working out the details, and he sees and knows.
Ephesians 3:14-21
For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
I ask that out of the riches of His glory, He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to Him who is able to do so much more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
This is so good, and such a great reminder. We’re trained by society to talk about our problems and accept them without looking to the One who knows all their solutions. Our God is bigger than anything we can imagine–as soon as we imagine His bigness, it’s more than that! There’s a deep comfort in that, I think. I’m so glad that you ran to Scripture to root yourself in that truth and have started to see the fruit of it in your situations already.
Yes, we want to fix everything ourselves and sometimes forget how big God is.