Who Am I?

Who Am I?

 

I was struck with something on my way home from church today.

God is so big and we are merely nothing. But too often, we act like we are so big and God is nothing. How did things get so messed up?

Have you ever had an experience with a person who tried to tell you how to do your job and had no clue what they were talking about? How did you or would you react? Being the insensitive person that I am, I'd be afraid that I would laugh in their face. You may be someone who would patiently listen, then when they left, do it the right way anyhow.

How do you think God reacts? I personally have felt Him get frustrated at me. Don't get me wrong, He is so patient! The frustration usually comes after I repeatedly insist that I know what I know, and that what I know is right. I just wonder if I ever just make Him laugh out loud and shake His head!

I found this passage tucked in an amazing book. (yeah the Bible J)

 

Job 38:4-21

¶ "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.

5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone—

7 while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?

8 "Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

9 when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,

10 when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,

11 when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt'?

12 ¶ "Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place,

13 that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?

14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment.

15 The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.

16 "Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?

17 Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

19 "What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?

20 Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?

21 Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!

 

At what point did you start feeling pretty small? If it didn't hit you at the beginning or the middle, the last verse surely smacked you across the face!

How have we become so enthralled in ourselves and our own lives that we have forgotten how mighty and powerful He is? Right now, if you are saying that you haven't forgotten, then let me ask you another question: when was the last time you were worried sick over something? Or when was the last time that you made a decision by yourself? I think that I could ask a million "when was the last time" questions. The reality is that we all forget at times our position. We all forget that the God, who did everything described in Job 38, is the same God that is there for us too. We think that we can handle things on our own. One of the most horrible mistakes that I have ever made was thinking that I could fix a problem by myself, and in my own power. That mindset got me stuck in a pit so deep, I am sure that God's arm had to be completely extended to help me climb out! But you know what? His Hand was there the instant I asked for help! That of course does not mean that I decided to hold on to it until I got to the top. When I would let go, there, thankfully, were ledges in the pit that I fell onto; I never fell all the way back to the bottom. But only when I surrendered to the fact that I am nothing, and only God could fix me, did I get fixed! I am talking years of trying to do it on my own! It took God only a couple months with me completely surrendered and I could again see the light of day instead of the dingy walls that had become all too familiar to me!

Don't take God for granted! He is there and always will be, but we need to not live our lives with Him on the back burner; ready to use Him when we are desperate!

Every day He wakes us with the sun. We expect it, and He comes through. Every night, it gets dark. We expect it, and He comes through. Every promise that He has ever made, He has come through on! What about that kind of God makes us want to forget Him when we wake? Forget to thank Him for the food that He provides? Go days without talking to Him at all? I am going to ask the question again: How did things get so messed up? Why is God not on the pedestal that we put our "things" on? Why are "things" more important than God who simply has to speak and the winds stop?

We are crazy, we are confused, and we are messed up!

There is a praise song that is called "Great are You" by Downhere

The Chorus goes:

"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, Who am I

And great are you

 

How I love Your Word

My God, My King

How I love Your Word

My God, My King"

 

We are nothing, but amazingly the creator of the whole universe, wants to have a relationship with us! I shake my head in wonder at how amazing He truly is! He not only wants to have a relationship with us but He pursues a relationship with us! What are we doing?! We have got to get things straightened out and put things in the right order! God first and EVERYTHING else second! If we can get that right, then our minds will finely be without any arrogance about whom we really are and who God really is!