God Is Bigger

How big is God?

I have been studying the 10 plagues in Exodus chapters 7-11 and one conclusion I have come to is that Pharaoh had no idea how big God is. He seemed to think he could hold on to his slaves because God wasn't big enough to take them away. Man, was he wrong!

So just how big is God? It depends, I guess, on what you mean by "big." In terms of physical size . . . God cannot be defined in such terms. God is spirit. Asking how big God is physically is like asking how big our soul is. It just doesn't work that way. The spiritual cannot be measured by physical means.

So what are some other definitions of "big" we could use.

How about influence?

How big is God's influence? Well, for starters, God is the creator of all things. Nothing is that He did not create (Colossians 1:16). That's influence. All things on earth and in heaven, seen and unseen, physical or otherwise were created by Him and for Him. That's influence.

He controls the times and the seasons, sets kings in place and removes them as He sees fit, and distributes wisdom and knowledge to whom He chooses (Daniel 2:21). Basically, He controls what happens, when. That's influence.

How about knowledge?

God knows everything. He is omniscient. Nothing is known, has ever been known, or ever will be known that He does not know. Nothing is hidden from His sight. Nothing is unsearchable for Him. Nothing is unknown by Him or to Him. That's knowledge. That's big.

God knows what we say, what we do, what we think, how we feel, and why. He knows the deepest secrets we have and the most fleeting of thoughts. He knows things about us we don't even know. He knows the name of every star. He numbers every hairs on our heads. He counts the grains of sand in every sea. Quantum computing has nothing on God.

How about power?

Besides creating all things, God sustains all things, holds it all together (Colossians 1:17). He holds the power of the stars in the palm of His hands. A supernova is controlled by His will. Black holes respond to His desires. The powers of the universe, those we understand and those we don't, are in Him and from Him and at His mercy. That's power.

God is big.

How big? Bigger. Bigger than anything we can compare Him to. Bigger than we could ever imagine. Even the angels don't understand everything about God, and they've been in His presence since creation.

God is big. God is bigger.

Remember that, whatever else you might come up against today.