Good Morning,
Praise the Lord for this new day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. We will gather for our Mid-week service today at 6 PM with a "Happy Meal" followed by Bible study at 6:30 PM and Choir practice at 7:30 PM. We have begun studying the Book of Matthew. "The Grass Withers the flower fades, but the Word of the Lord endures for ever."
I got an e-mail from Sunita. She and Andy are having a very blessed time in Israel. She said it is very green, though quite unexpectedly cold, in the Northern part of Israel. One of my recent trips was in the month of February, and it was raining in Israel. The Almond trees were in full bloom. It was brilliant.
Dr. J. B. Phillips, a British scholar and clergyman, wrote a book many years ago titled, "Your God Is Too Small". Often we fail to fathom the greatness of our God--- His Majesty and His Splendor. Often, in the corrupt, confused, and bankrupt culture of day, we fail to see the beauty and the splendor of our God, revealed in the Person of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He rules and over rules. He exalts the humble. He humbles the exalted. He brings down the proud and the arrogant. He crowns the humble and the meek. He is upon the Throne..
At the end of Prince Caspian, one of the books in The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a great dialogue between Lucy and Aslan, the Lion who is the Christ-figure in the book. They haven’t seen each other in over a year and Lucy says, “Aslan, you’re bigger.” Aslan responds, “That is because you are older, little one.” She says, “Not because you are?” Aslan replies, “I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.” So it is with our relationship with God; the more we grow the bigger He gets.
In Psalm 34:3, David said, “O magnify the Lord with me, let us exalt his name forever.” The word magnify means “to enlarge.” We have a copier in our church office that allows us to reduce or enlarge images. If we ignore the Lord God, he gets reduced in size in our life's spheres. He gets smaller and smaller until all that’s left is a thumbnail image. But when we read Scripture, it is like hitting the enlarge button on the copier. The image of God gets bigger and more real to us. The same thing happens when we pray. Our problems get smaller and God gets bigger. When we worship God, the Lord is magnified in our lives. I think the same thing happens when we serve the Lord with obedience and joy, using our spiritual gifts. He gets bigger and bigger!
How big is your God? Is he bigger than your biggest problem? Is He bigger than your worst failure? Is he bigger than your greatest fear? Is your God bigger than a 500 pound lion?
G.K. Chesterton said, “How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.”
In Christ,
Brown
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