Tomorrow morning, the Lord willing, I get the extreme privilege and honor of preaching on the greatness of God. Where do I start?  What words are worthy of such a profound subject as the “Greatness of GOD.”

Genesis 1:1 through Revelation 22:21 tell me in words, letters and syllables the Greatness of GOD in a form that should take the strength from my legs and drive me to the ground in praise to my Saviour yet He gives me strength to walk through this world and make my own choices.  My Saviour, who created all, took upon Himself the condemnation of my sin.  My sin.  MY SIN!  I don’t want all the junk I can remember brought out in public yet He suffered and died on a cross for that junk, the mess ups of my life and garbage I can’t even remember.  How does any of this make sense? Why would the Way, the Truth and the Life make the Way for me, show me through His Word the Truth and supply for me His Life through His sacrifice and His Spirit who leads me?

God’s Word has the answers man is looking for yet we walk our own way, we make up our own lies and call them truth and attempt to make a existence in a lost and dying world and fool ourselves into calling it a life.  What is there to this life?  Well, history has shown me in fifty years life is full of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, job loss, foreclosures, under-handedness, cheating, lying and death to name a few.

Is this what we are called to live for?  Depends on who your authority is?  If my authority is secular and worldly directed the earth could be my footstool yet my life would be empty.  Sure, there are secular pleasures in life yet they leave us so empty.  However, if my authority is God’s Word, and I believe that Christ died for my sins according to the Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, I am assured Life through Him and my assurance doesn’t depend upon my feelings or my worries or anything else this world has to offer.  My life now depends upon God’s promises!  God’s promises?  There is nothing more dependable.  There is nothing more lasting.  There is nothing without God’s promises.

Great is the Lord?  I have barely scratched the surface on this life I live in Christ yet I stand in awe of the greatness of my God.  “Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.”