How Big Is Your God con't.

Throughout my days I have come in contact with many people who have an interesting take on life.  These people, for the most part, see life as a "win some, lose some" mentality.  When they win or have something good happen to them, they make fun toned statements of “the gods must be looking out for me."  When life goes bad they make a side-ward statement of "I must have made the gods angry."  Though these statements are said in jest, the thought process comes from most people’s view of God.  Some see God as a cosmic killjoy, just waiting to zap us.  Others see God as uncaring, uninterested in life.  But in our churches is it any different?

Exodus 20:4-6,  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

This commandment tends to be the one commandment most people in church feel they have no problem with.  How many people in your church do you know that make little statues and bow down to them?  For the most part we see this commandment is for those heathen in foreign countries that we send missionaries to.  Some preachers may try to tie in having a love for things, such as cars, boats, houses, money, etc. and tell us not to worship those things.

However, this commandment is violated everyday multiple times by the best of church goers.  The truth from the commandments is to help mankind understand how big God is.  The first commandment starts by helping us understand that the God of the Bible is the only God and that He is greater than all.  The second commandment continues with that thought and reminds us that God is greater than His creation.  God who is the creator of all, can not be worshiped by taking something from creation and using it to represent God.  Notice that while Moses was receiving these commandments from God, the people of Israel were in the camp making a golden calf.  Notice the passage.  The people were seeking to worship the LORD, but they were using the golden calf to be the god they could see.  

Exodus 32:5, And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.

How many times do we make decisions in life and rationalize it by saying, “Well, God understands what I have to do.”  We set up our church services using worldly ideas to reach people stating that the most important thing is to bring people to God.  But what god are we bringing them to?  My God is bigger than anything this world has to offer.  We do not have to settle for a smaller god when the God of the Bible is greater than all.  We just need to live by faith doing what God tells us to do.

How big is YOUR God?