day 11
SAME GOD
Psalm 102:24-27 (ESV):“O my God,” I say, “take me not away in the midst of my days—you whose years endure throughout all generations!”
Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment.You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away, but you are the same, and your years have no end.
daily devotional
Perspective is an interesting thing.
I often think of A.W. Tozer’s most famous quote, where he said,
“What comes into your mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you.”
It’s in the moments and seasons of trial, struggle, and battle where it becomes easy to forget just how magnificent, mighty, and powerful God truly is. It’s in those seasons where we face a hardship, and all of the sudden, it’s as if the hardship becomes the all-powerful giant we begin to fixate on, rendering everything else seemingly small in comparison.
We have to be careful not to make the giant more powerful than our God in our moments of trial, temptation, or testing.
How easy it is to forget that our God is literally the God who breathes things into existence. Our God is the God who holds all things together.
When in the midst of battle, how easy it is to forget that our God sees both history and future at the same time. He’s the God, uncreated, who rode the ancient skies and will always be. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. In Him, there is no shadow, no turning, no changing. His perfect love has been and will be forever. His power is unmatched, unrivaled, and unstoppable.
There is none like Him.
He was there with Adam.
He was there with Abraham.
He was there with Moses.
He was there with David.
He was there with Mary.
He was there with Jacob.
He has been and will be.
He was there before us and He will be there forevermore, long after we are gone from here.
Our pain and our problems, our struggles and our seasons, our battles and our bad moments, while those things become so monumental to us when facing them, they can never begin to compare to the God who rode the ancient skies, the God who has been present and in control for all time yet somehow, is still intimately aware of every single one of us.
PRAYER:
Thank you, Jesus, that you are all-powerful, mighty, able, and willing to war and fight battles on my behalf. Open my eyes that I may see you rightly. Give me proper perspective of your power in comparison to the things I empower, things that could never compare to you. There is no giant greater than You, my God. Remind me in my weak moments when I fall into fear. Renew me in my fragile moments when I need to rise in faith. I trust You, Father, as You are the same God of power who has always been, who is, and who always will be forevermore.