Our Great God

God was working on my heart this morning…and I wanted to share.

Wednesday morning is when our Point Man group meets. The Point Man group concept has always been touted as a men’s accountability group at our church, but they tend to be more of a Bible study and prayer time in my experience. Recently, however, I’ve been challenged by some in our group to focus more on the accountability issues.

So, our group is currently studying the life of Job. Last week’s lesson had to due with Job’s integrity. When I sent out the morning’s prayer requests last week, I also sent out a little challenge regarding our integrity and how it applies the way each of us is living our daily walk. In this morning’s meeting, though, the challenge was presented by another member of the group.

Today’s lesson was on Elihu’s assault of Job, and Swindoll concluded the chapter we’re reading by challenging us to consider how we view God’s involvement in our lives. How much impact does He have? How much impact can He have? Do we have big view of God or a little view of God?

As I scrambling to finish up my reading last night, I read the words on the page. I even answered the questions…”sure, my God is a BIG god.” But, I didn’t really think about what was being asked until one member of our group brought it up this morning. He simply stated that as a matter of accountability that wanted to share something that was on his heart. Basically it was regarding worries about the future and not thinking God is big enough to be in control of that aspect of his life. His challenge to us was to consider areas of our life that we’ve taken God out of…areas we don’t think God is big enough to be in control of.

It didn’t take long for all of us to realize there are areas in each of our lives that we’ve “taken control” of and excluded God from…areas that we once laid at God’s throne but have given up on…areas that we’ve “taken control” of, but aren’t making progress…areas that we’ve quit praying about because we’ve taken God out of the question. Maybe it’s because God’s got a different agenda than us, maybe His timing is simply not ours, maybe its just that He’s teaching…

A few of us welled up, shed tears, and even flat out cried…because that simple challenge helped us to come to the realization that while we tell ourselves that our God is big enough, we don’t always live like it. It was a good reminder to me that there are areas in my own life that I’ve tried to take out of God’s hands, and it’s time to turn them back over to Him.

I simply wanted to share because I know what that “little” challenge from my friend this morning made me realize…