Great Things

by R. Darke, Victoria, B.C. | Category: Fingerpost | Mar 1972

A Christian widow was once commended for the many answers to prayer she had received. "You must have great faith in God", someone remarked to her. "'No", she replied, "faith in a great God". We do indeed have a great God, and when we consider the wonders of His creation, and the magnitude of His plan of salvation, we can truly exclaim, "How great Thou art I"

So much of God's greatness is revealed in His word that we stand in awe. Some incidents show His holiness and others His majesty; yet again we see His grace and also His judgements. How sobering it is to read of a great white throne (Rev. 20:11) and a great gulf between saved and unsaved (Luke

16:26). But how marvellous to ponder the great peace found in His law (Psalm 119:165), and the great calm after the frightening storm on lake Galilee (Matt. 8:26). We can sit under His shadow with great delight (Song of Songs 2:3), and meditate on the Lord's return to this troubled earth in power and great glory (Matt. 24:30). We can ponder the remnant days of that brave man Nehemiah, and the response of a grateful people of God with their great sacrifices and great joy (Neh. 12:43). And we can see God's way of preparing Moses for the great task of leading Israel from the bondage of Egypt, when showing him the burning bush that was not consumed. "I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt", said Moses (Exod. 3:3). It was then God called unto him to "put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground" (vv. 4,5). Moses was once a great man in the land of Egypt and no doubt he saw many great things, but none would compare with this experience in the desert. It has been said that his life was divided into three parts. He was 40 years in Egypt learning to be something; forty years in the desert learning to be nothing; and forty years leading the children of Israel learning that God was everything.

We, too, have "great things" to occupy us. Worship and testimony are to be maintained in God's house where the Lord Jesus is Great High Priest (Heb. 4:14) and Great Priest (10:21), and we look forward to this dispensation's end and the appearing of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13).

R. Darke, Victoria, B.C. | Mar 1972
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