Life Talk

The Magnitude of God

Scripture: Isaiah 40:12-31

Devotional:
Before we can soar, we must change our perspective God. The order matters. We don't rise on wings like eagles because we tried harder or believed deeper, we rise because we've finally seen who's holding us up.

Isaiah paints a breathtaking portrait of our Creator. He's the One who cups the oceans in His palm, who measures the heavens with His hand, who weighs the mountains on a scale like they're nothing (Isaiah 40:12). He calls out the stars one by one, and not a single one is missing, because His strength never runs low and His understanding never runs out (Isaiah 40:26). This is the God you're bringing your problems to.

Here's the truth we forget, your problems, no matter how overwhelming they feel as you lie awake at 2am, are not too big for Him. They just feel enormous because we're standing right in the messy middle of them.
 
Stop giving the enemy more attention than he deserves. He is not omnipresent. He is not all-powerful. He is not all knowing. He is not knocking on every door at once, whispering in every heart at the same time. Those are all characteristics of your God. The enemy of your soul  is a defeated foe operating on borrowed time, and he's not even in the same category of your God.

Fix your eyes on the magnitude of God. His power that spoke galaxies into existence. His faithfulness that has never once failed, not for a single generation. His eternal strength that doesn't wear thin the way ours does. When you truly grasp who He is, something remarkable happens, your circumstances don't get smaller, but they take their proper place. They stop being the biggest thing in the room.

This is the starting line for waiting upon the Lord. You cannot soar carrying a small view of God. Today, let His magnitude dwarf your difficulties, not by ignoring them, but by setting them next to Him and finally seeing them for their actual size.

Reflection:
What circumstance has consumed your thoughts lately? How does viewing God's magnitude change your perspective on this situation? What would it look like to bring this same problem to Him today, but with fresh eyes?