Ok all that really doesn't have to do with God being great... BUT it is relevant.
As a child we learn - God is great. God is Good. Let us thank God for our food. AMEN. Why is God great? Why is God good? I don't know what I thought about this when I was little and don't really know that I will ever fully understand God's greatness even now. So, a song started going through my head. "Great are you" by Downhere. When I contemplated the "Calmer of the Storm" song yesterday, I started thinking about the song that started me listening to Downhere. "Because I'll never, hold the picture of the whole horizon in my view. Because I'll never rip the night in two it makes me wonder...who am I? Who am I and Great are you."
I don't often understand alot of what happens in the world. I don't have the infinite wisdom to comprehend the South Texas rain patterns where we have a hideous drought and then torrential flooding. I don't understand how great pain and suffering can come to some while others don't seem to ever get sick. Why is that? Is it supposed to make sense to us? I really don't think so.
God is God and I am not. That is a hard thing to grasp sometimes. God is so great and so GOD that all I can understand in my miniscule understanding is that God is in control. Now, I am a control freak. Thanks Nanny. I get my strong need for control from my maternal grandmother. I have to be in control and have to know the goal. Many may think I am spontaneous but really, thanks Nanny, I HAVE TO BE IN CONTROL. So, letting go of this control and giving it to God really stinks sometimes. I can see that power struggle in so many places in my life. I want to know when I will get better, when sick. I have to have control over my whole schedule down to the littlest thing. (When Jody and I get busy busy this time of year, we often even schedule in family time so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle.)
There are times tho, when I let go of the control that is God's. Wow, that is freeing. Letting God have what is God's, all of it and letting God show me that God is in control. God controls ALL of it and I am merely HIS. Even typing that and rereading it makes me want to delete it and figure out where I am in control of all of this.
At camp, growing up I remember a Bible study where we were looking at creation. We were supposed to go stare at something and look at God's creation. I don't think I understood the activity then. It was a little confusing for a 7th grader. BUT, looking at one object for several minutes - you begin to notice things. You see deeper into the object and deeper into yourself. You begin to understand the GREATNESS of God that there is a WHOLE world of little objects that we can stare at. God created it all and it all is God's down to the minute little cracks and blemishes.
God is GREAT!
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Nature shows me that there is no tree or leaf that says to itself one day, "I want to grow into a cactus today. I know that as a cactus I can be happy."
A tree grows because it has everything in it, from the very acorn from which it sprouted, to be a tree. It does not resist, does not complain that it wants to be something else.
I am a child of God. I know that I was made to love God and love and serve other people. I grow the best when I put my energies and thoughts and emotions into that truth. When I doubt it, I grow abnormally.
Nature seems to have more wisdom than I do sometimes.
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