Jump Start # 4006
Psalms 145:3 “Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable.”
Throwback Thursday: an article from the past
Great is Our God
Some church leaders are so eager to make everyone happy, that they have become obsessed with presenting a safe and gentle Christianity. They have defanged the tiger of Truth. They have tamed the Lion, and silenced the call for change. They make Christianity sensile, palatable, and even comfortable. They have watered down the message and blended in with the culture that there is no real difference between the world and the child of God. Our world is seeing a people whose God is tame and lifeless.
The world desperately needs to see a God who is big and holy and frightening and powerful and alive and gentle and tender. A God who splits the earth open. A God who divides the sea. A God who made the sun stand still. A God so powerful, yet so caring that His attention is drawn to the death of a small bird. A God whose love so mystifies us that we race to His side where He showers us with blessings of forgiveness and acceptance. A God whose voice thunders, “come unto Me…” A God who is so unlike the world around us, tha tonly in Him can we find true joy and lasting hope. A God who is so special and so unique, that He is worth changing our lives for. Our God is not a trinket. He is not confined to a box, a building or a nation. Great is our God. Great is His message. Great are His promises. Great is what He expects from us.
It was Jesus who told the disciples to “cast out into the deep.” Let us not keep God near the shore, where all is safe and sure and defined by us.
Great is our God!
Roger
October, 1998