Sometimes, in order to trust God, we must be reminded who He is, what He’s capable of doing, what He’s done in the past, and what He’s currently doing on our behalf.
One of the greatest problems in our generation is the diminishment of our perspective of God—we have lost the biblical perspective of His majestic greatness. We read of His greatness in Genesis, His majesty in Exodus and His miraculous power in the Acts of the Apostles, but we fail to see Him the “same yesterday, today and forever” (Heb. 13:8, NKJV).
To understand the sovereignty of God is to acknowledge that nothing began with us—and it probably won’t end with us. We are simply a part of the successive, progressive work of God, and by His greatness we occupy a moment of time in a generation.
We live in Him. We move in Him. We breathe in Him. And we do His will as long as He gives us life.
When our mission is complete, and our time is over, He raises up another generation and continues to do what He has been doing from the foundation of the world. Nothing stops God in His eternal purpose.
Nations rise and fall and are reborn under the banner of a new hope. A church grows and is celebrated, then dies a terrible death because of a split or moral failure in the leadership. But these things don’t stop the work of the kingdom of God.
The eternal purpose of God is greater than a nation, a church or a generation. But sometimes it is hard to see God’s greatness because our image blocks the Son. The key is not in making God larger, but in making ourselves smaller in our own eyes.
Terri Crist is the senior pastor of City of Grace in Scottsdale, Phoenix and Mesa, AZ.
