I spent some time last night reflecting on just how big our God is.  I thought about this week as we had a service Sunday morning focused on God as He reveals Himself, I’m that I am.  Then we had a blessing for all of our wonderful teachers and prayed for a great year for them all.  Sunday night we had a great service with baptisms for 7 students and a wonderful time of teaching and praise.  We kicked off our school year ministering to almost 500 students and their families.  The Pastor who built most of all of this place moved into Advent Square a place that he once dreamed of.  The last night we had a prayer service for a dear member and her family going through a time of struggle. What a week! I don’t know about you but I have been thinking about just how amazing it is that our God is intimately involved in each and every one of those situations and the lives represented from this past week.  It reminded me of Psalm 139.  Let’s look at it together today.

You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise;  you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down;  you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue  you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.  If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.   My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body;  all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God!  How vast is the sum of them!  Were I to count them,  they would outnumber the grains of sand—  when I awake, I am still with you.

Aren’t you glad that our God is as big as He is.  Not only that but that He loves the way He loves as well.  That is what is so amazing about God.  No problem, no joy, no situation is too big that He is not involved in it.  From first day jitters, to huge life moments God is there with us each step of the way! We are forever and always –  In His Grip

Pastor Dave