Not God Enough: Why Your Small God Leads to Big Problems

by J.D. Greear

Until we have a sense of his magnitude, we won’t even be able to ask the right questions of him, much less receive his answers.

When we see God like Moses saw him,

our hearts will glow like Moses’s face did. We will catch fire with trust, passion, and love. Spiritual life does not come from discipline or mastery of doctrine. It comes from divine vision.

If being in the presence of human greatness makes us feel that way, what is it like to be in the presence of infinite greatness? If I was that starstruck in the presence of someone whose glory consisted of the fact that he could jump thirty-six inches higher than me, what is it like to find yourself in the presence of the One who spoke the universe into existence?

To be in his presence is to come face to face with a greatness so immense that the human mind implodes trying to think about it and a goodness so good that sin simply dies in its presence.

Faith begins in awestruck fear.

Our diminished view of God has also severely hampered our witness to a skeptical world.

A God we can predict, instruct, and control is not a God who will captivate our affections or command our devotion.

bush. C. S. Lewis called pain God’s “megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” He said, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.”5

It’s with Jesus’s primary claim, that he is Lord.

“If God doesn’t make us mad, we’re not worshiping him, but ourselves.”

You can shrink him down and carry him, or humble yourself and let him carry you.