SCRIPTURE:  Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21 NIV

THOUGHT: Early on in recovery as I began to unpack my brokenness, it seemed like all I did was cry. But looking back at it now, there was a lot happening underneath those tears. God was helping me with proper perspective, showing me, time after time and miracle after miracle, that he was so much bigger than I had given him space and permission for in my story.

If you’ve been reading this devotional for long, you know I talk about “Big God” a lot, and it’s a theme that runs through the book I’ve written too. I just don’t think we get to very big worship if we don’t have a very big God – the two go hand in hand. So, God taught me about perspective and I learned to worship in the midst of pain and suffering and regret – but, hallelujah, I serve a very big God who can do things I couldn’t even think of or imagine.

He’s standing in a river holding on to a pebble,
It’s his favorite rock, He never lets it go, and
He’s got dreamy eyes as the fireflies turn into shooting stars
Another day is done; it’s time to make tomorrow’s sun…
This is our Father, and he is larger,
So much larger than this life
The river flows from beneath His throne
And the rock He holds we call our home.
Yet He planned our birth, and He knows our name
And He says we’re worth all the cross became
Oh He’s so much more than maker of heaven and earth –
This is our Father.

Amy Clemens, THIS IS OUR FATHER, August 2006

PRAYER: Father in heaven, thank you for perspective; thank you that as our own resources dry up, yours are eternally available. Show up in all your greatness and glory Father, we need you on this little rock we call our home.