I Don’t Need To Be Strong

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I sat in church listening to the beginning of a new sermon series entitled, “Your God Is Too Small”. It really hit home. I was sitting there fending off fretful thoughts about situations and problems either I or someone in my family were facing. Yep, I was sitting in church trying to fight worry.

My pastor reminded me I believed in a God with many names. Those names tell much about who He is. The three names Pastor Chuck used for the beginning of this series were Elohim, Adonai, and El Shaddai. Put together they mean “The Almighty Master of Power and Strength”. Wow!

So if my God, who loves me and cares for me, is the almighty master of power and strength, what the heck was I worried about? Really, worrying seemed dumb now. Didn’t I read that if I need something I can ask and receive? The things I needed worked on and worked out were things that weren’t frivolous. No, they were things I knew God wanted resolved too.

Here is what I knew:

1. I was worrying about stuff

2. I had no power to fix any of it

3. God did have the power to fix everything

4. I believed in God

5. I had prayed to Him about it all

6. Therefore . . . I could stop worrying because The Almighty Master was on it

If I didn’t stop worrying it meant my God was too small. But I knew long ago my God was big. I was reminded me of the song I taught second graders some years ago on a Sunday morning, “Our God Is A Great Big God”. So right there in my seat I said to myself, “Mari, stop making God out to be a midget. He is and always will be more than capable of handling any and every situation you bring to his attention.”

God has all the power and strength. I don’t. But that’s okay. I don’t need to be strong. I just need to trust and know that God is.

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