God Is Enough

September 10, 2022

I often say that God tells us in the Bible not everything, but everything we need to know. In a roundabout way, I ask myself, “How big do we need God to be?”

Do I need God to be strong enough to be my emergency help, my second tier of ‘go to’? Do I need God to be my advisor, to support or nix my own decisions?

Do I need God to be understandable, small enough for me to predict His actions? Should I work to comprehend the limits of His power, so I know how much I’ll need to hoist on my own shoulders?

Frankly, I want a big God, a huge God, an unfathomable God.

I want to know that God is much greater than any human, with immeasurable strength and resources. I want to know that God is much smarter than me, that no problem would confound Him, that no situation would surprise Him.

Well, I say that, but what happens when God does something I don’t understand? Am I okay when I’m sure that it’s God who calls me to something I can’t handle? I get really shaken when situations go wrong, when somebody gets fired or sick. If I’ve wanted a big God, it follows that I need to be able to survive when someone…dies.

God is eternal and immeasurable in His power. God is bigger than I can completely understand, ever. God loves me with an everlasting love. Through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God has conquered death and sin’s hold on me.

God is big enough for anything that comes up in my life. I don’t always understand, “God, why? Where are You going with this?” The simple answer for me is an attitude of trust. It always works.