Speaker: Dr. Harold J. Sala | Series: Guidelines For Living | Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.  Psalm 145:3

How big is God?  That’s a pretty tough question, right?  Ask ten people, and you will get ten different answers.  Ask a South American deep in the jungles of Colombia and he may lead you to a primitive hut.  From a narrow shelf just under a hand‑thatched roof, he may take down a beautifully polished statue and hold it out saying, “God is this big….”  As you observe the artifact he holds in his hand, you notice that it bears a striking resemblance to the man who holds it.

Ask a stockbroker in Tokyo or Manila “How big is God?” and he might say, “That all depends on the stock market, or your bank account, or the scope of your influence….”  He carefully avoids your question, but you sense that he is really saying, “Materialism has really become my god; for all that counts to me is what I can get my hands on.”  He is not interested in anything he cannot see, or bank, or declare as an asset.

If you went to a campus and asked a college professor, “How big is God?” you might be greeted with a look of incredulity.  A new breed of atheists is out to convince the world there is no God.  They do not believe in God and their mission is to ensure that you also do not believe in Him.

Then, suppose you stopped a sophomore college student and asked him that lead question, “How big is God?”  He might say, “Is that a question I will have on a test?”  But then getting serious he might say, “God‑‑I do not think about God, and I won’t until I am old.  Right now, I am living. Who knows how long we have till some politician pushes the button and blows us all up? Now is my time for fun!”  But the question still remains, “How big is God?”

One of the oldest of all historical dramas took place in the book of Job in the Bible.  About the time of Abraham, or possibly before, Job looked up towards heaven and asked himself the same question.  Then he said, “Can you fathom the mysteries of God?  Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?  They are higher than the heavens–what can you do?  They are deeper than the depths of the grave–what can you know?  Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea ” (Job 11:7‑9).  Job would say, “No, God is bigger than anything that can be measured.”  It is little wonder that the Psalmist declared, “Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom” (Psalm 145:3).

Just how big is God?  It is a difficult question to answer, but of one thing I am sure–He is bigger than your financial need.  How big is God?  He is greater than the need of your life‑‑greater than the problems that confront your business, your home, your marriage.  Bigger than the energy crisis, bigger than the conflict that divides individuals, and groups, and even nations.  How big is God?  Certainly, He is bigger than the greatest need of your heart.  God still says, “`Come now, let us reason together,’ saith the Lord; `though your sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool'” (Isaiah 1:18, KJV).

God is greater than our wildest imagination; however, He is limited by only one thing‑‑your refusal to let Him work in your life.  He invites you to come to Him but He never forces His will upon you.  Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).  It is His invitation to you to discover His true greatness.

Resource reading: Job 41:1-34