Too Big, Too Small

      I think the reason we have such a hard time recognizing what God is doing in our world is that it is both too big and too small. On an individual level, He is performing microsurgery, the kind for which doctors wear magnifying loupes. He is transplanting hearts, rewiring brains. On a global level, He is transplanting believers, overthrowing nations, and using myriad situations I can't begin to understand. The barrage of news available today can tell us what man is doing, but men, even the wisest Christians, cannot tell us what God is doing. His plan is too big, our minds are too small, .
     So we see God's hand in our circumstances in brief glimpses, blurred by our own preconceptions. We are trying to watch surgery through a telescope, world events through a microscope. No wonder we misunderstand. God always does what is right, but we can only see that when the conditions are just right. God's loving hand versus our Goldilocks vision, nothing too big, nothing too small. He has written history, but it is also a mystery. God interweaves fallen humanity, Satan's profanity and His own sovereignty into one seamless saga, but the end of the story is easy to understand--we live happily ever after.

One Holy Thought

     Recently I had a rare experience, an instant answer to prayer. As I contemplated the attributes of God, I became envious. I thought how wonderful it would be to have a mind free from the sinful, selfish thoughts that constantly fill mine. I wanted just a few Connie-free moments, just one holy thought. Then as I was praying, I was filled with a feeling of love for God. I have loved God for decades, but most of that time it has been just knowledge tucked away in the back of my mind. Something I knew but seldom felt. Humans may long for God to exist, but loving the God of the Bible is as foreign to human nature as loving disease.                  
     So I knew the love I felt was the answer to my prayer. There is nothing sinful or selfish in loving God. He had given me what I longed for--one holy thought.