Friday, November 18, 2011

God of Heaven?

In the Old Testament the people (Israelites and the world) often understood the gods to have jurisdiction, god of the mountains or god of the valleys. From that the reasoning would be to try to fight a battle in the locale where their gods reigned. And if you left that place… you would be beyond the scope of your god.

Wonder if I live that, we live that now millennia later? Is God the God of heaven? The God of eternal life but not the God of heaven and earth? If God is the God of heaven and earth wouldn't that mean I could trust him with the earthy stuff like money, relationships, jobs, disease, et? When I am unwilling to go out on a limb and give I am living the limitation "God of heaven". When I face my stress and go through it alone, mostly without really getting with the Father, listening and obeying I am living "God of heaven". When my mountain seems so far out of my ability I am living "God of heaven". But the Word declares it differently, God of heaven and earth, God of life and death, God of resources (my provider), God of health (my healer)!

Today I want to live in my stress a bit differently, God of heaven and earth! God of my earthy portion, my world and the whole world. Today I live the joy of the omnipotent, omnipresence of the real God, God of heaven and earth!!!

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