GOD-MORE CHRISTIANITY

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth., – Ps 57:11

At an official height of 8,848 meters above sea level, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. It was identified as such only in 1852 by Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian surveyor, using trigonometric calculations from geological survey data.

Do you know what the tallest mountain in the world was before 1852? That’s a trick question that many persons, even geographers, fall for. No, it wasn’t “Mount Kangchenjunga”. The tallest mountain in the world before 1852 was – and has always been – “Mount Everest”!

That people did not go to the icy wilderness of the Tibet/Nepal region until the 1800s to measure it did not make it “shorter” than other known tall mountain. It was just as tall all the while. Our ignorance of its height and majesty takes nothing from it.

This is also very true of God Almighty. We can sit in our armchairs and philosophically put Him in a bottle; explaining what He can and cannot do, who He can and cannot be, and all what not. But that doesn’t change who He is: our ignorance of His glory and majesty takes nothing from Him.

Nevertheless, it does take a lot from us. Because what we can rightly demand from God is intrinsically tied to what we believe He is and what we believe HE can do for us.

When the Psalmist says “O magnify the LORD with me” (Ps 34:3), he isn’t asking us to make God bigger than He actually is; he’s only asking us to join him in declaring God’s greatness in ever increasing ways.

This is the essence of worship. If the God you worship is a BIG God, you can trust Him to do BIG things for you, but if you have, inadvertently, reduced Him in your eyes, then you limit what you can get from Him. For “without faith it is impossible to please God”, (Heb 11:6).

Make a decision today, to “Magnify” your God. Because now, as ever, we need God MORE in our lives.

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN