Something Bigger Than Me

I am amazed and spellbound when I take time to look around me and behold the beauty of God’s creation.  The firmament above is breathtaking, especially when gazing at it in dimly lighted surroundings.  I feel like a microorganism when considering the vastness and splendor of the cosmos when I compare it to me.

The grandeur of all variations of flowers and trees tells me there is a greater power at work as my mind tries to grasp the glory of it all and how it began.  How can anyone say there is no God? 

It is hard to comprehend the magnitude of thunder when listening to it clap loudly overhead after the brilliance of lightning flashes.  It is mindboggling how powerful natural phenomena are.

I remember as a young boy, my dad told me that thunder was the marvelous voice of God.  There is no doubt in my mind that it could be, but I have found through the years that the Lord speaks to me in a quiet voice when I steal away from the hustle and bustle of everything around me and just listen.

Here’s some food for thought.  Just think, a bolt of lightning can carry a voltage exceeding 10 million volts of electricity, with between 30 thousand to 110 thousand amperes.  The power of Mother Nature (God) is mind melting.

To give you a small comparison of the energy in a lightning bolt, a standard electrical plug inside a house, in the United States, has 120 volts with 15 or 20 amperes.  Clothes dryers and oven plugs have 240 volts with 40 amperes.  It is hard to grasp 10 million volts.

Category 5 hurricanes can have a wind velocity of 157 miles per hour or greater, and a category 5 tornado can reach wind speeds of 261 to 318 miles per hour.  A cordless leaf blower produces a mere wind speed of 90 to 150 miles per hour depending on the model.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, and title waves give me feelings of helplessness, inadequacy, and impotence, especially listening to breaking news on television regarding these natural phenomena.  It does something to my brain when I try to comprehend the magnificence of God’s incredible power.

I am captivated when I read about the wonders of God, in the Bible, when He rolled back the Red Sea for Moses and the children of Israel to cross on dry ground.  They were fleeing from the armies of Egypt’s Pharaoh, who, once again, wanted to enslave them or worse yet, slay them all.  

In the following Bible chronicle, the prophet Elijah prepared a sacrifice to the True and Living God and placed it on an altar, dug a trench around the alter, and commanded that four barrels of water be poured over the sacrifice and wood, three times, which filled the trench.  This was after the priests of Baal failed in their attempts to call down fire to consume their sacrifice. 

Elijah prayed and immediately fire came down from heaven and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, stones, and the soil, and licked up the water in the trench.  This act of faith determined whether the people would serve the god of Baal or Almighty God.     (1 Kings 18:38)

At a wedding feast, the wine had run out and Jesus turned water into the best wine of the day.  It was indeed a miracle, as was the time He fed five thousand hungry souls after they listened to Him teach. 

Jesus blessed a young boy’s lunch of two fish and four loaves of bread and multiplied it more than enough to feed the crowd.  Wow, this tells me that there is something bigger than me at work around us or should I say, Someone bigger than you and me, for sure.  It is the power of God at work.

Mankind can become puffed up in their own ideals and standard of excellence, thinking they are all powerful, because of what their money can buy, but compared to God Almighty, they are just fooling themselves.

Even with weapons of mass destruction that countries possess, they mean nothing in the comparative scale of God’s power.  He is the ultimate power Who has the final say in all things that pertain to heaven and earth.  Remember, He rained down fire from heaven on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because sin had become an abomination to Him.

No man, woman, or Antichrist will ever replace God and remove Him from His throne of authority.  God is omnipotent and unyielding.  Nothing and no one, not even Lucifer himself can achieve the power of God within themselves, because they were the created, not the Creator.

I am now in my senior years and realize more and more each day how quickly a lifespan can slip away.  I have heard my dad say, “The older I get the faster the years go.”  The Bible says that a lifespan is around seventy to eighty years of age. (Psalm 90:10) The Bible also says that life is a vapor and then vanishes away. (James 4:14)

It would behoove us to consider where our alliance lies.  Ponder for a moment how terrible it would be to come to the end of life and not have treasures laid up in heaven, having our way paid for by Jesus, Who gave the ultimate price for our redemption.

The wealth we may attain in this world will stay here when we pass.  Naked we came into the world and naked we will leave it.  No U-Haul trailer has ever followed a hurst.  We need to seriously ask ourselves, “Where do I want to spend eternity…heaven or hell?”

In my opinion, it is fine to acquire money and get ahead in life, but if money becomes a person’s god, I believe it becomes harder for them to think about the true God, because they have no need of Him.  They can buy just about anything they want, except salvation and peace of mind.  These are God-given benefits that only come from Him.

(Mark 8:36) “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?”

I want to hear the words, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”  In that, Father God, gave His only Son to die for our sins, this is my hope of eternal life in heaven, because I accepted Jesus as Lord.  There is no other name under heaven, whereby, we must be saved.

The message I want to convey is this:  Christians are used to perform miracles.  Today is no different than Godly men of old.  The same Spirit dwells within born-again-Believers.  We need to exercise our privilege as children of God and believe Him for phenomena when we pray, while we still have breath in us.

Christians are special in the eyes of God.  He hears us every time we pray, but haughty people are so caught up in themselves that they fail to see the One Who created them.  They feel sufficient in their own self-righteousness, thinking they need not a Savior.

I consider myself someone special, because God sees me through the blood that His Son shed on the cross for my sins.  The moment I asked God to forgive me of my sins, I became His child with all the privileges the Father gives a son.

I am saved by grace, and I believe that God can use me to call down power from heaven if need be.  It is important that I witness to others about the beauty a relationship with the Lord brings.  He gives peace that passes all understanding when the Godhead takes up residence in our heart.

God’s power in nature is overwhelming, but when a sinful soul surrenders their life to Jesus, this step of faith causes all of heaven to rejoice.  In my mind I imagine that the thunder I hear could be the angels and loved ones that have gone on before are shouting, “Glory to God in the highest!” because another soul said yes to the Holy Spirit’s wooing.

There is something bigger than me at work on earth.  When a Christian trusts God by exercising their faith in the power of the Creator, things happen to glorify His name.  We are a conduit that God uses to bring about His will in people’s life. 

Every man, woman, boy, and girl is precious to God.  His desire is that no one be lost, but that everyone would be saved.

(John 3:15-18) “that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” (16) “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (17) “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” (18) “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

Written by,

Papa Boyd