God’s Greatness

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Me: Hi Prodigal that is a big turtle!

Prodigal: Yes he is so much bigger then me so I decided to catch a ride.

Me: It makes you look smaller Prodigal to be next to the big turtle.

Prodigal: That is ok I don’t mind looking smaller today. Small is not always so bad. What story do you have for me today?

Me: I can tell you are getting use to my stories. Let me just jump into it. Today our story from Philip Yancey.

The cultures of ancient Greece and Rome did not favor humility, admiring instead the values of accomplishment and self-reliance. Likewise today, a modern celebrity culture shines the spotlight on a billionaire who takes delight in firing people, as well as on supermodels, strutting rap musicians, and boastful athletes. As theologian Daniel Hawk puts it, “The basic human problem is that everyone believes that there is a God and I am it.” We need a strong corrective, and for me prayer offers that very corrective.
Why value humility in our approach to God? Because it accurately reflects the truth. Most of what I am-nationality and mother tongue, my race, my looks and body shape, my intelligence, the century in which I was born, the fact that I am still alive and relatively healthy- I had little or no control over. On a larger scale, I cannot affect the rotation of planet earth, or the orbit that maintains a proper distance from the sun so that we neither freeze nor roast, or the gravitational forces that somehow keep our spinning galaxy in exquisite balance. There is a God and I am not it.
Humility does not mean I grovel before God, like the Asian court officials who used to wriggle along the ground like worms in the presence of their emperor. It means, rather, that in the presence of God I gain glimpse of my true state in the universe, which exposes my smallness at the same time it reveals God’s greatness.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing.

Tell Prodigal this week how God is great and bigger then ourselves? Leave a comment by clicking on main page and then comment section.

Take care,
Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

wwwfaithincounseling.com

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