He Alone Is Great
Psalm 86:10 ESV says, “For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God.”
It is such a privilege and joy to fix our attention, even for a moment, on the greatness of God. How fantastic and freeing is it to know that we will never underestimate the greatness of God? We can seek forever and never find the end of his glory. There will never be a point where the pursuit to glorify God will be satisfied. He is eternally worthy.
Songwriters, poets, authors, and theologians strain to capture the power of God, yet all fall short. God cannot be measured! How could we measure the greatness of God when Isaiah writes in Isaiah 40:12 that he measures the universe in the palm of his hand?
Therefore, the only proper way to worship God for his greatness is in a posture of awestruck wonder. Wonder is the feeling we get when we are simply without words to describe the glory of something we are witnessing.
God is great, yet for all his goodness, it is so easy to forget that God is, by nature, a wonder-inspiring God. A casual review of the stories of the Bible reveals that time and time again, God’s people underestimated the greatness of God. We are no less susceptible to such a temptation.
Fixing our attention on God allows us to marvel at his unending greatness. His works provoke us to wonder—how much more wonderful is he himself? This revelation is the foundation for a life of holy living and the doorway into intercessory prayer. Do you feel stuck in your spiritual walk? Do you sense that you have grown idle in your faith? Set your attention on the greatness of God, and you will see that you have been serving an image of God that is far too small.
Every new level of knowing God comes from first remembering that God is greater than you know. This is what scripture calls the fear of the Lord. For this reason, if you want to become great in the kingdom of God, you must step back and allow yourself to become small. Is God a towering mountain in your life, or is he a buddy you tag along with? A blasé relationship with God leads to the danger of seeing him as only a friend and forgetting to tremble at his name.
The beauty of today’s message is that it is truly an invitation for all. Whether you have made God small or massive, he is greater than your current image of him. You can seek him more today.
Consider the greatness of God. Set your heart on his might and remember that he alone is God.
