I am feeling a little overwhelmed today.
Woke up that way.
The Psalms in the Bible take my focus off my problems and my inability to fix things and these ancient prayers put my focus back on God.
He can fix it.
Whatever the challenge is, He is up to it.
I love these words about us and Him from Psalm 44: “Only by Your power can we push back the darkness; only in Your Name can we trample the forces of evil. I do not trust in my bow; I do not count on my sword to save me. You are the One who gives us victory...”
Human power can’t win the day. We are too limited and weak. We have good days and bad days but all the good days together aren’t enough to smash evil. God who fuels the sun without an effort and spun galaxies into motion—HE is enough.
Only by HIS power and only in HIS NAME will we see the change in this world. HE is the ONE. I’m just Bob. He is GOD.
This is why we need to pray. If prayer is the tendon that flexes the muscle of omnipotence then I choose to appeal to Him in prayer instead of choosing fear.
When I was a kid I was the church janitor. One day I was vacuuming the pastor’s office. My dad was the pastor. I took the end off the vacuum hose, you know to vacuum the base boards, and then I got down to vacuum under my dad’s desk. There under his desk was a big red sticker with stark white, block letters that said, “God is bigger than any problem I have.”
Good stuff.
Thing is though you could only see that truth when you were on your knees.
So whenever my dad knelt to pray in his office that was when he could see the truth that the God he was praying to was bigger than any problem he faced.
It isn’t by my skill with a man made tool or weapon or degree that the world changes; it is by the power of God stirring human souls to action and change and healing.
You, O Lord are bigger than any problem I have. So in Your Name I come and ask for Your Power.
Amen.
‘Nuff said.
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