My God is So Big

"My God is so big, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do."
"My God is so big, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do...FOR YOU!"

Our four year old Abby has been singing this song so often over the past few weeks. I hear her as she's in the bathroom, or when she's playing with her polly pockets in the family room, or as she rides along in the van. This is the catchy type of song that gets imprinted in your brain and plays over and over all day.

I know that there is nothing that God is incapable of doing for His dear ones. But the question niggles, "What if He chooses not to?"

I believe whole-heartedly that He has the power to make cancer completely disappear from the body of a young mom. But what if He chooses not to?

I believe that He is able to guard against infection in knee replacement surgery. But what if He chooses not to?

I believe that He has the power to anwer the prayer of my kids and completely heal the hearing loss and tinnitus I've had for eight years. But what if He chooses not to?

I believe He has the power to bring my loved ones who have no interest in Him to a saving relationship with Him. But what if He chooses not to?

The enemy whispers, "Is He still strong and mighty?"

Oh, a thousand times, YES! Sometimes I think He proves His power more strongly by continuing to uphold His people through His loving, "No's". How many opportunities are given to glorify Him through the daily, hourly, moment-by-moment dependence on Him.

Dad is in the hospital again. I'm tempted to say, "Lord, don't You think this is enough now? Four surgeries on this leg?" Instead, I'm choosing to say, "Lord, this is hard, but You must have someone in that hospital staff that you want dad to witness to. You must have more You want to teach us about dependence on You. You are only good. So this must be for good also." The more I repeat this to myself, the more convinced of it's truth I am. And how that strengthens and even cheers one.

The thought comes, "Mom has stayed with her parents for a week, admitted her father to the nursing home, cared for her husband through knee-replacement surgery, experienced the death and burial of her father, cared for her husband through additional surgery for infection, taken care of her step-mother when she fractured her back, taken her step-mother into her home as they packed for a move out of state, and now she has to care for dad as he goes through another surgery for infection all within seven months? She struggles with depression, God, did You remember that?"

But instead, I'm going to choose to take hold of those thoughts and say instead, "Your servant Sue GETS TO show Your faithfulness. You know her verse is 'I can do all things through Him who strengthens me'. What a powerful God You are to continue to be her strength through all this that You have entrusted to her." For even these trials are opportunities He entrusts to us, His children, out of His deep love.

When God chooses not to prove how mighty He is by changing our situation, He promises to prove how mighty He is by carrying us through the situation.

So, I've made up my own little version of the children's song...

"My God is so big, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do."
"My God is so big, so strong and so mighty, He's promised to see me through...AND YOU."

And that dear mom of two little sweeties...He is going to prove how strong and mighty He is through her no matter what the days ahead hold.