Small Glimpses of our Big God

Introduction

Sometimes God can call you to things that make you laugh when the thought of it first pops into your head. Like Sarah, when she heard that she would have a baby in her old age, well past her birthing years. I can relate to her reaction, on a much smaller scale, of course. The thought of this book made me laugh. The thought of me letting people into my writing, letting people see my thoughts and ideas, terrified me. When you open yourself up like that, to the possibility of ridicule and failure, it can be a scary thing. What if my writing is not good enough? What if they don’t like it? What makes me think that I can write anything of value? The girl with no real talent and no free time writing a book? Me? The thoughts of my busy life with three children and no time to do anything other than clean or cook or schoolwork, didn’t offer much hope of accomplishing anything. You know the feelings, right? The feelings we can get when we put our focus on us and not on the One that really matters. This book is me telling those feelings to take a hike. It is me rerouting my focus off my insecurities and onto my great Security. Our lives can be crazy enough without adding so much extra pressure on ourselves. The pressure to be perfect or look this way or sound like that. We can lose our peace because we look at ourselves and our circumstances and think we just can’t handle it all.

We can forget what it’s like to savor and slow down and enjoy our routine. To see past our ordinary to the extraordinary. To realize that all that mess is just a part of being beautiful. To remember, when we forget, that God still speaks to us through it all. That’s what this devotional is about. It’s to get us to recognize that nothing is too simple, too ordinary, too routine or too crazy to not contain God’s handiwork. That no one, including me, is too worthless, too far gone, too talentless, or too busy to be used of Him. We are His masterpiece, His greatest work. His desire is for us to awaken that truth and live every day with it as our reality. Please join me as we walk daily with the truths that open our ears to hear and our eyes to see Him more clearly and allow Him to lead us to rejoice in the life we’ve been given, in all its forms. Let Him use these pages to take us on a journey that teaches us that anything and everything about real life begins with Him and us…together.