October 29, 2001
The question of the day is, "How Big is Your God?" J.B. Phillips many years ago wrote a book called. "Your God is too small." It has challenged my thinking to this day. He writes, "let us fling wide the doors and windows of our minds and make some attempt to appreciate the size of God. He must not be limited to religious matters or to the ‘religious’ interpretation of life. He must not be confined to one particular section of time nor must we imagine him as the local God of this planet or even only of the universe …so far discovered. It is not of course physical size we are trying to establish in our minds…It is rather to see the immensely broad sweep of the Creator’s activity, the astonishing complexity of His mental processes which science laboriously uncovers, the vast sea of what we can only call ‘God.’" In a small corner of this vastness "man lives and moves and has his being."
But God is not only the God of the vastness but the God of the most personal. That’s the most dramatic fact of life. That Jesus came to make God known. (John 1:18) To call men to himself and to a satisfying personal God who is bigger than anything we can imagine yet who cares for the needs of each person. Jesus said he came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. (John 10:10) What more can we ask than that?
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