A MILLION LITTLE MIRACLES預覽

God Most High

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” - C.S.Lewis

Many years ago, I was driving down the George Washington Parkway with my family when our youngest child, Josiah, asked one of those quantum questions that only kids can ask: “Dad, God is bigger than Target, right?”

I, of course, asked a clarifying question: “Target or Super Target, son?”

Josiah was doing what we all do instinctively; he was sizing God up. The challenge with that is this: All of us underestimate God. God doesn’t fit within the four dimensions of spacetime He created, much less the logical constraints of our left brains.

The apostle Paul broke out in praise at the wonder of this. “Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!” (Romans 11:33 NIV)

How might a bigger view of God change your perspective on your biggest problems? Or your biggest dreams?

I’ve realized that, for me, the bigger God gets, the less anxious I become. The bigger God gets, the more holy confidence I have.

A high view of God doesn’t just change what you believe. It changes who you are. You are more than a conqueror! You can overcome trauma. You can overcome divorce. You can overcome a difficult diagnosis. You can overcome the mistakes that haunt you, that taunt you.

The psalmist said, “Magnify the Lord with me; let us exalt His name together.” (Psalm 34:3 BSB) How do we do that? We have to leave room for unknowable mysteries. We have to allow for irresolvable paradoxes. We have to take into account impossible miracles.

Permission to speak frankly? Most of us pray like God is omnipotent, but we act like God is impotent. We believe God can heal—until we get sick. We believe God can reconcile—until we’re faced with irreconcilable differences. We believe God can deliver—until the addiction has our name on it.

If we believe God is omnipotent, let’s live like it.

Have you been acting like God is less than all powerful? If so, how has this been affecting your life?