Read today’s texts first: Isaiah 6,7; 2 Chronicles 26,27; Philemon
MAXIMize YOUR DAY
God is so big He can see little me!
Whenever I read the book of Isaiah I am reminded about how big God is. Yesterday we talked about why we can’t see God, how He exists outside time and space, far beyond our dimensional limitations. And yet, we see evidence for Him everywhere. This book is a collection of such evidence!
First we read about Isaiah’s incredible vision of the heavenly realm, of seraphim worshipping God, of His immense glory and awesome holiness, and of Isaiah’s immediate sense of unworthiness (6:1-5). But we also see how personal this God is, purifying Isaiah, assuring him of forgiveness, and calling him into service (6:6-9).
Then we see God’s ability to exist simultaneously in the past, present, and future, the Great “I Am.” He can see the future captivity of Israel by Assyria a few decades down the road (7:18-20). Just before that, He is 700 years ahead predicting the birth of His Son, the Messiah, His place of birth in the city of David, Bethlehem, His mode of birth through a virgin, and His name Immanuel, “God with us,” in every generation, throughout all time!
Add to those grand images God’s personal and tender care for a simple Gentile slave named Onesimus. That God would involve the great apostle Paul as an advocate for a slave and include his story as a book in the Bible, Philemon, shows us just how small this big God can become.
It reminded me of an Elvis song from 1966, “Somebody Bigger Than You and I:”
He lights the way when the road is long
He keeps you company
And with His love to guide you
He walks beside you
Just like He walks with me
When I am weary, filled with despair
Who gives me courage to go on from there
And who gives me faith that will never die
Somebody bigger than you and I
Bigger than you and I
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