Pastor Paul’s Blog

This weekend Kim and I, along with our daughter Emily, are privileged to be providing the music for the Intermountain District Singles Retreat at Trinity Pines Camp & Conference Center. We’ve been looking forward to this for quite some time. Back in July we met with the retreat leadership to discuss the theme for the weekend. At the meeting we watched a DVD featuring evangelistic speaker Louie Giglio titled “How Great Is Our God.” For those of you who haven’t had the chance to see this DVD, I would highly recommend it. Using information from scientists and NASA, Louie describes in great detail not only how big this earth is, but how small in comparison it is to some of the gigantic stars that NASA has discovered using the Hubble Telescope. I think I particularly like the illustration, because Mr. Giglio keeps comparing Earth to a golf ball. (I’d like to be hitting one right now.)

In my last blog I talked about how excited it makes me to think about God singing over me. I guess I’m trying to continue that thought only shifting our focus to the fact that while God loves us so deeply, he also is a great God who will see us through. Isaiah puts it like this in chapter 40:28-31 “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

I don’t know what you may be facing today, but I know that our God is a great god, the creator of this very earth we dwell on, the creator of the stars in the heavens, which are incomprehensible in their size. He can handle whatever is the matter in your life. How GREAT is our God.