God is Big – The Arrow Preacher

Live For God, Live For Love

Psalm 90:3-4“You turn man to destruction, And say, “Return, O children of men.” 4 For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night.”

Awaken to God, allow your heart to be opened to God, trust that God has made you, and though we are small, God gives us hope in Jesus Christ. This faith is so big that even the faith the size of a mustard seed can move a mountain. God is so great He paints a masterpiece daily. We are a part of that painting, and we often forget how big God is, and how very small we are. When we consider the vastness of our universe how expansive it is, and yet how perfectly it all fits together how can we not think there is a great creator? From the perfect spin rate of the earth, to the perfect tilt, to the perfect distance from the sun, and at only 500 seconds for the suns warmth to touch us here on earth, we are blessed at the wondrous expanse of the cosmos.

You are a tiny blip of dust in the sunbeam. In a quote by Carl Sagan“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” God is great, God is perfect and it’s not for us to figure everything out. When we realize how small we are we can realize what God can do. When we are smaller then a grain of sand and God is so sovereign we can realize we were never meant to travel this life alone. A journey around the sun, 584 million miles, at almost 900 spinning miles per hour, and we think we are ordinary. God loves us tiny little creatures, He cherishes us so much that Jesus was born to fix, and restore our very nature of our selfish sins. Jesus Christ hung on a tree to show us how important we are. Jesus Christ had a chance and in a perfect act of love, no matter the pain, no matter the humiliation, the matter the temptations, remained on that cross to take the full wrath of the father, and that makes us extraordinary. We are small yes, but God knows every tiny bit of who we are and God knows each one of us individually. In my life, which is nothing compared to eternity with God, Jesus knows me by name. With so much in this universe Jesus Christ wants more than for me to be ordinary, and for that find the joy to awaken you, the blood that saves you, and find that at least for me, the universal sacrifice took me from small, to extraordinary.

God came to our blue little marble in the vast expanse of the cosmos to rescue us, to give us a chance, a single chance of something so special, so wonderful that to just follow the son, so that we may be gifted, inherit the kingdom of God. This God who created perfection, created every single one of us to be vastly different from the next person, a breath of life to live in a relationship with God. 1 Corinthians 10:31 (NKJV)31 “Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” No matter what we do, we do it all for the glory of God because God will be around long after I return to dust, He was here long before I was thought of, and I trust that a God big enough to paint the cosmos pays attention to a little creature like me.

I hope that I can find favor in God, draw in God’s wisdom, and be filled with a sense of peace in the vastness of chaos that is this life. What are you living for, that our lives have become all about ‘me’ and we think we are big stuff on this blue ball floating in the vastness of space? Knowing I am small, and God is big, I feel comfortable knowing that it isn’t about me, and I never have to take this journey alone. I know that Jesus Christ is my savior, my hope in a world that seems so dark. I know that when I live according to God’s rule, and living for God’s glory, that I may be forgiven of my selfish sinful desires. I know that no matter how big the universe is, God came to this tiny blue marble to save us because no matter how amazingly small we are, God knows my name. That is love, and that’s the kind of love we should share with everyone we meet because there is no greater gift than that of love, unconditional, unselfish love. This life is a miracle everyday, and the miracle is not that we are living on a perfectly planned planet, in a perfect spot in the universe, the miracle is that God wants to go with on our every day journey, and we deserve to do more then give a nod to God, but our whole, undivided heart is for God. How wonderful a thought, how wonderful a sentiment, that God loves and adores little ol’ me.

The Boss is Bigger

What problems do you have? Do you have money issues, bills pile up, drowning in debt? Are you in an abusive relationship, mental or physical, or worse both? Are you being sexually assaulted on a regular basis or even just once? Have you lost your job or are unable to work? Are you ill and you just can’t get well? Do friends turn on you, treat you badly or just don’t care about you? No matter what your problems, or how bad it seems, God our boss is bigger then any problem we might have.

Psalm 145:3 (NKJV)“Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable.”

The word unsearchable is to examine, to seek out, and if we are to consider God is so big the mystery will never be found. God can handle any situation, Romans 11:33 (NKJV) 33“Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!”

We want to put God in a box thinking our problems are too big for Him to take. We want to think we can handle any of our own problems without God. If we think we can handle life without God we will often find ourselves seeking something missing in our lives. On the flip side I have often blamed God for my sorrows. I have fought with God looking for answers to my suffering, and wondered why I had been made to suffer in this life. I have often found myself going from one crisis to the next. A line from Deadpool seems to sum up my life pretty well, “Life is an endless series of train wrecks with only brief commercial-like breaks of happiness.” The thing is though, it’s not God who brings the rain, it’s God that sees us through.

How do you measure your days? How do you measure your pain? How do you measure your joy? There’s always the next storm brewing on the horizon, but in the sunshine do you give thanks for the moments of peace you have? Are you praising the God over all, the God of all creation, and the King of the universe? We must remember that this life is a gift from up above, and we must measure life in love. There’s so much love in this world, and even though the darkness is widespread, and seems like it’s everywhere, you cannot truly snuff out the light. All it takes is a tiny spark to give birth to a wildfire. We must keep the spark of God alive in our hearts, and trust that if we tend to the joy God has given to us, we can burn away everything we aren’t, and what’s left is a beautiful creation reborn in the light of the Lord.

As the song Hard Love by Needtobreathe says “it takes time to make your courage strong.” We must be patient but we need to remember that God is with us, and we cannot expect something without us working. We have to hold on tight, and fight for the change we want. Change doesn’t come without sacrifice and we must move with purpose for the Lord. Let that fire burn inside you, and let it become a raging forest fire in your soul. This life will test you, it will try to break you, but if you allow God to forge you, you will become something so strong nothing can break you. Be the Kings sword forged in the pits of hell on earth, and able to go to battle every day. This life is hard, but stand tall, stand firm, and scream from the mountaintops that you ain’t done.

No matter what struggles you have, God is bigger. God can get us through anything, and use everything to teach lessons, to make change, and in all things we can find purpose. God wastes nothing. Everything we experience is an opportunity to grow in faith, to show faith, to experience faith. The question is who are you? Who do you want to be? Do you want to be someone that crumbles every time something tough comes along? Do you want to be the one who sinks in the water with little faith? Who are you in Christ’s light? It’s because of who our Savior is that we have hope, that we need to find our joy in this world. Don’t let Satan win the battle. The Lord will always be with you and if you remember that the next battle Satan brings to your door, you will emerge the victor over the prince of darkness. Satan couldn’t bare the love God showed to humans and his jealousy, his anger, his hatred makes his actions, his attacks are those in emotion. Stand back and think, use calm, use joy, use love to withstand the blows of the Devil. Martial Arts can teach us a great deal about fighting back against Satan’s attacks. First, don’t be tempted into a fight. A man can’t fight if it’s just them in the ring. Second, allow your attacker to expel energy as you simply move out of the way. It takes twice as much energy to swing and miss then to swing and connect. Third, use your attackers own weight against them. When the Devil throws all he has at you, respond by taking his attacks and turning it into something good for yourself or others. Lastly, when the time is right strike back. Show Satan you cannot and will not be bullied, or beaten down. Show Satan who you are in the light of Christ. You may not be able to control the battles that come your way, but you can control how you respond to them. With God in your corner you cannot loose.

David brought down a giant and won every battle sometimes with overwhelming odds against. Gideon won along against thousands. God sent Jesus and concurred Sin, and no matter what happens, we are saved. God changes hearts, and saves lives. Don’t underestimate the power of God. No matter what comes, as long as you have breath in your lungs, you aren’t done, and even if the odds seem against you, remember who’s King, and who’s in your corner.

My God, by Go Fish

“My God is so big, and so strong, and so mighty, there’s nothing my God cannot do!”