IsYour God Too Small? Is Your God Too Big?
In 1961, the great Anglican priest, J.B. Phillips, wrote the now classic book, Your God Is Too Small. Phillips believed most people suffer from a very limited idea of God, one which we perhaps learned as children. If we imagine God to be the “old man upstairs” with long white hair, a white beard, a white robe, sitting on a throne high in the clouds, then we really have nothing but a caricature of God. Is it any wonder why, when push comes to shove, and life gets difficult, our religion doesn’t work? Can it be because our God is too small?
And yet, the question might also be asked, “Is your God too big?–too high, too distant, too detached to know your name or give a care about your life? If the devil is in the details, surely we need a God who is in the details too! Dare we believe what the scriptures tell us about how God counts our tears, numbers the hairs on our head, and notices even when a tiny sparrow falls to the earth? Can it be that this Most High God is also the One who is Most Near?
Our scripture for Sunday, Psalm 139, gives us an emphatic Yes! Plan to be present in worship this week as we explore the immeasurable height and depth and length and breadth of the love of a God who is both–Most High and Most Near.
See You Sunday!
Callie
