Just the other day I was stalking my niece on Facebook—these days it’s the only way to keep up with a teenager’s life–while a certain picture struck me. She was posed with a few friends in a cheerleading outfit in her high school gym (and yes, I did a few sit ups after admiring how great they all looked in their uniforms. And, yes, I did a little repenting for coveting, too). Apparently the picture was taken after a basketball game. Here’s what struck me: she attends the same high school I graduated from, and it was as if I stepped back through a portal of time (I’m not telling you how long that portal is) and was staring at my old gym. Except things looked different. The bleachers looked short and small. The gym door I remember bursting through a hundred times looked plain and tiny. Even the score bored was modest at best. I kept thinking surely this picture was taken at another school, but the larger I made the picture on my computer screen the more I knew without doubt this was my old gym.
Here’s the thing: In my mind, my gymnasium was gigantic. I remember feeling intimidated the first day of 9th grade to gather on the bleachers. Sadly, even with all my school pride, the reality is my old alma mater’s gym is squatty. Yes, squatty. How could my mind play such tricks on me? Our minds can often do that. If we allow them, our minds can take small things and turn them into something huge. A financial crisis can seem like the end of the world. A marriage issue, like all hell has broken loose. And while in some ways we have right to feel this way, never, ever, not even once, is a problem too big in comparison to what God can do about it. Job 38-39 reminds me of this. It’s one of those scripture that allow you to see an interesting side of God’s character. God sets Job up to see how big He is. He asks Job a series of questions such as, “Where were you when I laid the Earth’s foundation?”, “Have you ever given orders to the morning?” Then God says something witty. He says, Job, “Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!” God wasn’t belittling Job. It was more the tone of, “Job, seriously, remember how small you are and how your view is very limited. But I am the creator of all things. Can I not do all things? Is anything to hard for me? TRUST me”
Let God ask you those questions today if you are struggling to believe Him for something. Remember, our human minds enlarge things and blow them out of proportion. But to God, they’re not all that difficult to handle. Go back to your high school gym. I bet it will shock you and hopefully be a reminder of how big your God is!
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