How great is our God?

A couple of weeks ago, we had watched a DVD of Louie Giglio’s concert of “How great is our God.” To help put things in perspective, Louie used a golf ball to give a point of reference to the views of the size of the earth if the sun were a sphere with a radius of 15 feet. He went on to say that that would be enough golf ball sized earths that would fit inside the sun to fill an entire school bus full.

The numbers continued to get quite astronomical from there as he continued to show the expanse of the universe and immense stars in neighboring galaxies that was mind blowing. It truly helped to get a greater understanding of exactly how awesome God’s greatness really is: far beyond than we could ever hope to view or imagine even with the assistance of modern technology, God is much more expansive!

But, there was something else that kept gnawing at the core of my heart through the unfolding of this enormous Universe within which we live: though compared to all the fullness of the universe our planet could easily get lost amongst the clutter, God not only created our planet to be a most singular privileged place, but He also knows each and every one of us personally of all the billions of people living on the planet. Yea, He even knows the number of the hairs on our head!

“How great is our GOD” helped me to understand a little clearer of how valuable and precious we all are in His eyes. This planet called earth upon which we live would be noted as being minute and insignificant to many had we the opportunity to view it from a third person point of view travelling at light speed through the vast Universe. And, yet here – to this planet – the Lord created life, and the fullness thereof, and placed mankind here to enjoy fellowship with Him and take care of all His creation. And, when mankind fell from His glory by willfully sinning against His Commandments, the Lord made provision for man. Later He would honor His Word and send His only Son to come in the flesh and live among His people and live a perfect life, humble himself to die for our sins, and rise again in the flesh on the third day.

My friends, this Great and Mighty God that we serve, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, sits at the right hand of the Father in Heaven ever living to make intercession for us: hoping that we would hear the gentle tug of the Holy Spirit upon our lives, repent of our sins, embrace the cross that lies before us with love and willingly humble ourselves to die to our fleshly desires, and be followers of Christ by walking according to His Word of Truth.

“How Great is our God” who is the only one just and true enough to come to this world and save those who are righteous and judge those who continue to live in stubborn rebellion against Him.

My friends, He is coming soon, and we need to be ready for His return. Let us therefore fall upon our faces, humble ourselves before Him, pray for His forgiveness and wait upon Him to strengthen us so that we may do the work whereunto which we are all called – to preach the Gospel while it is yet day. For the night is coming when no man will be able to work – and that time is nigh fast upon us!

By Anvil Forge
aka M&S Fish