My God is a Big God!

Firm Foundation with Bryan Hudson

My God is a Big God

Psalm 145:5, "I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, And on Your wondrous works."

In life, we have a tendency to see everything through the light of our experience. That’s not necessarily a bad thing but it is always something is limiting to our perspective.

One of the main challenges life is how circumstances and especially trouble work against our minds, outlook and faith. Everything around you does not encourage you. Having encouragement and faith are essential.

On a regular basis, you should expose yourself to realities that expand your mind and your faith. This is part of the appeal that our society has for celebrities in big leagues sports. All of these people seem bigger than us and so we feel inspired by them. People can are certainly a source of inspiration, but we should reach much higher to God himself and His creation.

Our natural lives and circumstances can force small thinking when we need to be thinking bigger.

God is a big God and we are a big people with him. We don’t think small or accept small, simplistic statements on matters of big consequence.

Proverbs 1:22, How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.

David put in mind on big things. That’s how he got through difficult situations

David said: Psalm 145:5, "I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, And on Your wondrous works."

Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Psalm 8 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! 2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, 4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? 5 For You have made him a little ower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, 7 All sheep and oxen Even the beasts of the field, 8 The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas. 9 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!

Some Ways to Expand Your Thinking

Read an entire book (A Good one!)

Take a walk and pay attention to nature

Do something you have not done before)

Think about what God has brought you through

Reflect on the birth of a child

Reflect on how God has kept you in times of difficulty

Pray and worship God for an extended time

What can you think of?

Isaiah 54;1-6 (MSG)

“Sing, barren woman, who has never had a baby.

Fill the air with song, you who’ve never experienced childbirth!

You’re ending up with far more children

than all those childbearing women.” God says so!

“Clear lots of ground for your tents!

Make your tents large. Spread out! Think big!

Use plenty of rope,

drive the tent pegs deep.

You’re going to need lots of elbow room

for your growing family.

You’re going to take over whole nations;

you’re going to resettle abandoned cities.

Don’t be afraid—you’re not going to be embarrassed.

Don’t hold back—you’re not going to come up short.

You’ll forget all about the humiliations of your youth,

and the indignities of being a widow will fade from memory.

For your Maker is your bridegroom,

his name, God-of-the-Angel-Armies!

Your Redeemer is The Holy of Israel,

known as God of the whole earth.