Our God is TOO Small

Recently I finally got around to a project that I have been putting off for a number of years. I borrowed Bill’s external floppy drive and began moving dozens of photographs from “floppy” disks and CDs to my flash drive devoted to pictures. It took me several weeks to accomplish my goal; I could only work on the project for an hour or two, but each day that I had time to devote to the project, I was able to throw out numerous floppys and CDs. ALL of my pictures fit onto one flash drive, which already had other pictures on it. Eventually it was full so other “stuff” that I wanted to save I put on my thumb drive – about 1/3 the size of my flash drive, but with 32 (THIRTY TWO) times as much memory. Bill sometimes uses a SDHC Micro card which is so small I would worry about losing it! But it is VERY transportable. He also uses Sky Drive which stores data that he can access from any of his computers in our wi-fy home – nifty for working on his current book project - which he works on sometimes from his downstairs study, sometimes from our upstairs study, or even on his lap in the living room. He also has an external hard drive which has 1000GB of memory! All of this is not to impress you with how much memory storage capability we have (far less than many other folks, and we won’t even begin to talk about Amazon, Kindle, the IRS etc.). Bill uses a free service with his Kindle – after he writes his sermon, he emails his sermon to Kindle (at Amazon) and they send him back a Kindle-formatted version which he can then use while preaching. The tremendous advantage is that he can adjust the font to what works for his eyes. BUT it is stored there as long as he wishes AND if his Kindle ever gets stolen, lost, destroyed, Amazon will restore ALL his data to his new device. WOW!!! What brains are out there to figure out, develop, devise, etc. all these devices! Think how far we have come when it comes to data storage, data accessibility, thought sharing, picture sharing, experience sharing in OUR liftetime. And what is ahead??? We can’t even imagine, well, we have some ideas but it almost blows our minds! I am QUITE sure that my grandchildren will someday (perhaps sooner than I expect) carry ALL their school books on some sort of reading device. So will backpacks get smaller??? We are in awe of folks like Jeff Brazos, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, just to name a VERY few. All of these men (and women) are created beings. They, and we, are merely a reflection of the creator being. Far too often, I think, we are guilty of thinking of God in our image – we seem to often make him a reflection of ourselves. The reality is that these minds who have so advanced personal computers, the minds who have unlocked the secrets of our DNA, the minds that are ever pushing the parameters of medicine, and most any other subject you can think of, are just, are merely a shadow of the mind of the Creator. We have been created in HIS image – not the other way around. Some days, perhaps many days, our God is too small. When I use my computer each day, I rarely think about all the people who were involved in its development. Perhaps when I first turn it on each morning, I should pause and think of the One who created the minds who developed my puny little personal computer. Perhaps I should pause then, and throughout the day and worship this awesome God who not only brought all things into being, but invites me to walk with Him each day. amen