Your God Is Too Small

There's a church down the road with a sign out front that reads something like this:

"Write your plans in pencil. Then give God the eraser."

Now that's really cute and all. I think I can pull out a small chunk of truth from it. I understand that we need to submit our plans, our agendas, our lives to Him. I don't want to make light of the fact that we have that responsibility. We'll be held accountable for seriously living under His Lordship. I get that.

But I just have to testify that the God I serve is soooo much bigger than that. I can take a Sharpie to my planner and put that good smellin', permanent ink all over it, and my Lord can change it. He can reword it, rework it, reassign it. He can shred it. He can toss it. And He doesn't need anything from me in order to make that happen.

Sure, I can choose when and where I want to meet a friend for lunch. I can fill my life with all kinds of activities...or not. And I think we do need to realize that God is in those details as well. But still, He doesn't need my eraser. There's nothing in the world that changes my own selfish plans like Jesus does. There's no eraser I can offer that compares to that of His blood which covers me. It's His forgiveness of sin, His love, His holiness that changes the plans of my heart. All I have to do is accept it, be blanketed and changed by it. And even that acceptance is not something I give out of a goodness within myself. It's brought forth by His own grace.

And how thankful I am that it does not depend on me! I was bought with a price, and I am forever His. I can "hand him the eraser" or I can hide it in my own pocket, but either way my God will do as He pleases and bring glory to His name. He's not my assistant or my appointment setter. And though I strive to give it to Him, He doesn't need my full cooperation. He's God! Almighty. Omniscient. Omnipotent. God!