A Big God

A friend of mine spoke very poignant words to me the other day. He said to me, "Just so you know, I believe in a God who redeems and restores, and I don't think you have to wait for heaven to be free." These last few days I have been drawn to these words like a pebble to the ground. They pull me in and consume me as if I had decided to weather the river of their meaning in a barrel only to discover that the river ended with a waterfall.
My insistence that I must face my troubles for the rest of my life shows my inner doubts that God is big enough to really free me from their power. At first I was offended by the words of my friend, but I dug deeper to see that they are true. It is the same when a matter arises in my life but I simply do not want to bother God with my circumstances. That is both to assume that He is not capable of handling my dilemma and that He has too much to do already that He can spare me no time or concentration. The fact of the matter is that He is a God who is big enough, powerful enough, loving enough and infinite such that time has no hold on him. He is not only that beyond which there is nothing greater but that which is greater yet. My God is big enough. My God is powerful enough. There is nothing in my life from which He can not free me and over which he does not have dominion.