How Big is Your God?
It’s fascinating to me to think about just how great God is and how much we fall short of understanding what He wants from us. I was reading in A. W. Tozer’s book (The Attributes of God: A Journey into the Father’s Heart
You see, God wants us to find happiness– completeness– in Him alone. We have a shrine in our heart that only He can fill, and yet we try to fill it with other things. Tozer has a passage in his book where he talks about what we tend to do in our everyday Christian life.
You see, we tend to seek happiness in
- A Good Job and God
- A Happy Marriage and God
- Good Children and God
and the list goes on and on. What God wants from us is to find our joy and happiness in Him. After we’ve done that, He may give us things or take things away and we will still be content and happy in Him.
It’s easy to prove that this is his goal– just look at the life of Abraham, Job, or any other person that held something closer to themselves than God alone. God wants to be the only thing in our lives to get worship. In that way He is jealous– and yet it is He that gives us all things.
Wow. It’s just amazing to think about and difficult to practice.
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Comments from MInTheGap
Leticia said,
Wrote on October 23, 2007 @ 7:09 pm Subscribed
I have to admit, I have been trying to solve some things on my own. Without God, nothing can be done.
How great my God? Greater than anything in this universe!
MInTheGap said,
Wrote on October 24, 2007 @ 10:50 am
How much of our lives do we live like this– because we believe that we have it all under control. It’s just astounding.
Leticia said,
Wrote on October 24, 2007 @ 6:47 pm Subscribed
MIn, you are so right. We tend to put God in this perverbial box and only pull it out as a last resort.
There shouldn’t even be a box.
God is our everything and we should always go to Him first.
Believe me, I am finding out the hard way. I am in a situation that is exacerbating out of control.