The Greater One—My Father

1 John 4:4 says, Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. Sometimes we need to be reminded that the God who lives inside of us is greater than any circumstance we face. We serve an awesome God who has the ability, power and desire to take care of us. Even though we know He is awesome and all powerful, sometimes our words and actions indicate that we have more faith in our fears that we do in Him.  Our fear-filled words give the impression that our God is not big enough to handle the difficult circumstances of our lives.  Instead of speaking words of fear, children of God should have faith-filled words on our lips.  Rather than speaking defeat and telling God how big our mountain is, we need to tell our mountain how big our God is.

The God who created the universe loves us and wants so much to have a relationship with us that, through the cross of Christ, He made provision to come and live in the heart of each one who will accept Him. He is greater than anything we face—all of our problems, our sicknesses, our fears, and insecurities. Everything that comes against us and makes us feel hopeless can be conquered as we trust in Him. Trust is a confident expectation of something. As we look into the Word of God, our faith grows, and we come to confidently expect that God will do what His Word says. Reading about His provision for us causes us to know more fully the care and concern He has for us and to believe that He has our best interests at heart. He is not a God who is far away, but is our Father who loves and tenderly cares for us.

We have assurance from the Word that we can stand upon the promises He has made. We can rely upon Him because He has promised to never leave us or forsake us. As we take His Word for what it says, we will live with confidence in the truth—and the truth will keep us strong in the face of any onslaught of the enemy.

Scriptures for Reflection

. . . I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. (Hebrews 13:5)

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. (Matthew 6:25-34)