Big................

This weekend I came across a couple who were youth leaders at a Christian camp I went to 26 (!) years ago. We had a great time laughing at memories and catching up on things that have happened to us and other in the intervening time.
As Charles Swindoll once said
: “life is made up of 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it”, we had a lot of life happenings and reactions to look back on!

We can rarely control what happens in life, but we can always control how we react to these happenings - what attitude we have, what course of action we take, and as a result, what kind of a person we will become. Sometimes our present situation can feel so overwhelming that it's easy to lose sight of all that went before and all that is to come.......

Anything that is close will always look like it's really big. If you hold a finger up to your eyes, it looks HUGE. You can block out people and even whole buildings! Often the big things than trouble us can become totally overwhelming. They can look larger than anything else and block out other situations, people and even God. How often do we let our circumstances and the way we react to them, close in around us and squeeze God out?

Imagine being really close to God - so close that he just keeps getting bigger and bigger. How would that affect our perspective? When Jesus asked Peter to step out of a boat and walk on water Peter needed to keep looking ahead. The things that he was afraid of didn't go away, but while he looked straight at Jesus, he was able to walk above it. The moment his fears got the better of him, and his trust evapourated, he got wet feet!

I love the Narnia books - in 'Prince Caspian' when Lucy sees Aslan the lion again she runs to him for a cuddle, and is suprised to see he looks bigger. Usually as we get older and bigger it's quite the opposite - things (like creme eggs for example...) look smaller and smaller! But Aslan says to her "I am not (bigger). But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

The more we grow, the more questions, the more struggles - the bigger we find God to be.
The more I know of God, the more I realise I hardly know him at all, the bigger he gets and the more thankful I am.......

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