How Big is Your God?

My late night dog walk is both my most dreaded and favorite walk of the day. It’s hard to walk out that front door after my body and mind has begun to shut down and crave my bed. Now that there is a chill in the air, it means bundling up and shocking my senses with blast of cold air. However as I make it down my driveway, I can’t help but crane my neck up and gaze at the never-ending sky.  Walk in wonder at sight of the stars and the God that placed them there. Each night renews my belief that my God is big.

 I think the question of “How big is your God?” shapes our faith and what we do to answer that question shapes how we live our life.

My God is so big that He controls the sky. Each morning the sun rises, and in the evening He paints the sky as it sets.  Each night twinkling star light up the sky as the moon sets on its path across the sky. My God is so big that He had the imagination to change the colors of the trees each fall and carpet the meadows with a rainbow of flowers each spring.  My God is so big that He can connect people of all countries, ethnicities and languages through His love.  My God is only as big as I view my world around me.

I am a finite being who’s learning about an infinite God.

I can make my God tiny when my world only encompasses me. When all I can see are the things I don’t have, complain about my job, focus only on how my relationships affect me or try to advance my position, my God is very small. When my God is only there to fulfill my desires and plans or when I set Him in the background only to talk to Him when I need something then He is tiny. When I limit God by who I am, I can become cynical and impotent.

 However if I believe in a God who made the sky; a God who gave purpose to a bunch of elements to light the sky every night, I can believe He has a purpose for me. I can believe that this world is not there to have an effect on me, however I am here to affect the world.

 How big is your God?

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