My God is Great
I want to turn to Psalm 145 this week, and use these verses to tell you about the God I know and love! If you want to know who God is – read the Psalms. The ways in which the Psalmists describe God really give you a full picture of God’s character. And so I pray that this week’s devos will draw us nearer to our wonderful God.
We start in verse 3, where we read this: “Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.”
Did you spot the repeated concept there? The Psalmist said “Great is the LORD”, and “His greatness no one can fathom”.
I’ve shared in previous teachings that the word great means “considerably above average”. When we sing songs like “How Great is Our God” or Great Are You Lord”, are we meaning this? Are we singing from the heart that God is considerably above average – that his ways are higher than ours, his power and greatness and might are far beyond anything we can imagine?
Majestic Sovereign God
The truth is, as the Psalmist points out, that nobody can even fathom how great God is. It’s interesting how the further out into space our fancy technology allows us to see, the less we seem to understand! It’s amazing how just when we seem to get a handle on some aspect of creation, God blows our minds all over again and shows us how much bigger He is than we realise.
There’s a story about Alexander the Great, where somebody once asked him for some money to help him out. Alexander told him to go to his treasurer and ask for whatever he wanted. The treasurer came back to Alexander and said that the man had asked for a large sum and that he was not sure if he should pay out so much. But the answer from Alexander was this: “Give him what he asks for. He has treated me like a king in his asking, and I shall be like a king in my giving.”
I wonder, if we sometimes bring God down to our size, instead of treating him like the mighty King He is? I wonder if our prayers, our worship, our lives would be different if we walked into the day saying I serve a great, big, mighty King!
Exalting the Almighty
This is why we often sing about lifting God up. It doesn’t mean that He is down here and we want to help him rise higher than He is. It means that He is high and we are lifting Him up in our lives, our thinking, our faith! We want to see and know Him as great – as considerably above average.
My God is a great big God! And I pray that as you go into your day, your faith will not be in yourself, or in a small, weak version of God – but in a great, big, powerful God who holds the universe in His hands, and is unfathomably awesome in every way.
