Imagine you are in a space rocket and you can see our planet suspended in space.  Looking down you see a small little blue ball called earth with millions of people living on it.  I would immediately think of Genesis 1:1:  “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

            God knows the vast amount of mankind who has lived or will ever live.  He knows everyone by name, address, and telephone number.  He even knows the number of the hairs on your head.  (Matthew 10:30)  Now that is a big God.

            Technological advances are new every day.  Scientists discover new knowledge that has improved and extended our lifespan.  Yet in 1 Corinthians 13:8 that knowledge eventually comes to an end…”where there is knowledge, it will pass away.”  In eternity

God’s children will be made perfect and be in God’s presence.  He is the essence of all knowledge.  God is big.

            He is big enough to carry my burdens and yours.  His shoulders are big and broad.  I’m just a tiny little speck compared to this planet, but God is mindful of me.  “Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me”  (Isaiah 49:16).  God planned for you and me to be born and he will send his angels for us in his time.

            Hundreds of prophecies in the Old Testament tell of the coming of the Messiah, centuries before Jesus was born.  In Isaiah 53:7-8, God pulls back the curtain of time so the people of Isaiah’s day could look ahead to the coming of the Lord:  “He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

By oppression and judgment he was taken away.  And who can speak of his descendants?  For he was cut off from the land of the living, for the transgression of my people he was stricken.” (NIV)

            How did the prophets of old know this?  They knew their God.  Blood is the atonement for sin.  In the Old Testament, innocent animals had to be slain for the remission of peoples’ sins.  Jesus, under the New Covenant, shed his blood for all mankind, once and for all.   I learned many hymns about the blood of Jesus at my grandmother’s knees. They are still with me and I am reminded of God’s great sacrificial plan for all those who will receive it.

            So God is big.  I’m just a pencil dot in this universe, a tiny dot in the midst of galaxies in space, yet God knows me and he is bigger than any problem, bigger than any care.

            The next time you find yourself getting anxious, remember that your God is big.  He is well able to handle any problem in your life.  He cares a bout you.  He is more than able.  By letting go and letting God, you will find “peace that passes all understanding” 

(Philippians 4:7).

            I read the following story in an old church bulletin:  “A businessman drew up what he called a ‘Worry Chart,’ on which he kept a record of his anxieties.  He discovered many things about his worries:

            40 percent of them were about things that probably would never happen.

            30 percent concerned past decisions that he could not now unmake.

            12 percent dealt with other people’s criticism of him.

            10 percent were worries about his health

He concluded that only 8 percent of his worries were really legitimate.

What about you and me?  If we analyzed our worries I wonder what percent would be worth worrying, especially since we know God is big enough to carry them all.

Montaigne has been quoted as saying, “My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”      

Remind yourself today, “God is big!”