MIghty to Save
Have you heard the song Mighty to Save by Hillsongs United?
It is one of my kids' favorites and one of mine too. Yesterday when I woke up, my sweet hubby and son were in the kitchen cooking breakfast for us and listening to that song.
Sweet little baby boy needed to eat too, so while I was feeding him, I was quietly singing along. As I was singing, I started thinking about all the people that I know in my life right now that have major things happening...sickness, cancer, tumors, family deaths, job losses, house foreclosures, serious debt, etc. The list really goes on and on...
I started singing "Savior, He can move the mountains. My God is mighty to save. He is mighty to save. Forever, Author of salvation. He rose and conquered the grave, Jesus conquered the grave."
I was singing it over all these friends and acquaintances. I was singing this song as a song of victory of their lives. I really believed these words too. My God is Mighty To Save. He can move mountains. I have seen Him do it many times. I have seen His miracles. I know He can bring these families the miracles they long for and so desperately need.
However, something else occurred to be as I was singing and praying. Often times, we don't believe He can move the small mountains. Or maybe it isn't that we don't believe He can but maybe that we don't think He will...or that maybe He doesn't even care. I have seen more believers destroyed by so called "small things" then I have by big, life-altering things. We get desperate. We think that we are going to be swallowed whole by all the little stuff. We start spending less and less time with the Lord and yet more and more time laying awake at night in our beds.
Many times it isn't even big stuff...it is the seemingly insignificant stuff. We feel overwhelmed by all that is on our plate. The piles are all so high...laundry, dishes, homework, responsibilities with the family and kids. We hate our job. Our marriages are falling apart. We feel like we are "wasting" our lives away in an endless search for meaning. We can't get rid of that last 15 lbs. We can't seem to connect anymore with our best friends. Our once angel of children suddenly are out of control and completely disobedient. It is all just too much. And then we start to ask, "Where is my God who is so mighty to save now?"
We lose hope. We lose joy. When the situation is literally life and death, we cling to Him so tightly because we know that without Him we cannot even catch our next breath. But, when the situation isn't quite so life and death, we still start to suffocate. Because we don't know where to turn to catch our breath. All we can see is everything around us closing in...sucking out all joy and life and promise with it.
Do you remember the next lines of that song, though?
"So take me as you find me,
All my fears and failures,
Fill my life again.
give my life to follow
Everything I believe in.
So I surrender.
I surrender."
Our God is still the same God...the same One who is Mighty to Save us. One of the enemies greatest tools in his war against us is to make us believe that God no longer cares. That our problems are too small. We think about all the people suffering from real problems and we start to believe that lie.
Do you all remember the story from Joshua 3 and 4? If you don't, you should look it up and read it. It is when the Israelites cross the Jordan river. After they cross the river, Joshua asks twelve men, one from each tribe, to gather one stone each to place next to that river. And then in 4:21, he says,
"...'When your children ask their fathers in times to come, 'What do these stones mean?' then you shall let your children know, Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground. For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over...so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is MIGHTY, that you may fear the Lord your God forever."
Don't think for a minute that God doesn't care about the small stuff. He does care. If He has the hair on your head counted, how could He not care about the very details of your life and family. But we must set up stones of memorial. Every time we win a small or big battle...every time we see God's MIGHTY hand on our lives in one way or another, we must set up a stone. We can't forget. The enemy wants us to forget. But, we can't let him. So whatever those "stones" are for you...journal writings, thankful lists, beads on a bracelet...whatever they are set them us a reminder that your God..our God is MIGHTY to save.
