How Great is God?

Last week during the Thanksgiving break I read the book, The Curate’s Awakening, by George MacDonald which is a great book if you haven’t read it. It is an updated version of the George MacDonald original by Michael Phillips.

There were quite a few great quotes in the book but I thought this one which was given to a character in the book who had committed a terrible sin and couldn’t see how he could find peace or forgiveness. I think I’m remembering the context correctly… anyway, here is the quote.

“Because you don’t see what can be done, you say God can do nothing – which is like saying there cannot be more within his scope than there is within yours. One thing is clear; if he saw no more than lies within your sight, he could not be God. The very impossibility you see in the thing points to the region God works in.”

How true that is. It’s so easy to limit God to our own limitations but God has no such limitations. He is bigger than me and all my problems and he wants me to call on him for help.

How different is God than mortals?

From Psalm 90:

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You return man to dust and say, Return, O children of man! For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.

From Isaiah 55:

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.