God is Greater

Hi Friend,

I do not know all that you are facing in your life right now. But I do know this: God is greater.

The issue may be big, but He is bigger.

The issue may be strong, but He is stronger.

The issue may feel as though it will last forever, but God will in fact last forever.

Indeed, God will outlast whatever your issue is.

So the questions are…

Where will you place your focus—on your issues or on God?

On the lesser or the Greater?

I’ve learned a powerful principle: we can mediate on only one thing at time. We will either meditate on the things of God or the things of earth or the evil one—either on faith or fear—either on the words of God or the words of people. Perhaps this is why one of God’s first instructions to Joshua when he became the leader of the Israelites was this:

8 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful (Joshua 1:8).

Notice the progression: our meditating leads to our doing, and our doing leads to our becoming.

When we meditate on God and His Word, we will do what He says. When we do what God says, we will be prosperous and successful in the ways God intends.

Conversely, when we meditate on things of the world or the enemy, we will do what this world or the kingdom of darkness say. When we do what the world or the kingdom of darkness says, we cannot prosper and succeed as God intends.

So the choice is yours, my friend.

Which path will you choose?

(I must note that this is not a one-time decision. In fact, it must be made several times a day, every day.)

Joshua posed a similar decision to the children of Israel when he said:

15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15).

An idol is anyone or anything that consumes our hearts and minds more than God. So, like Joshua, let’s choose to serve the Lord above all else by meditating on Him above all else.

After all,

He.

Is.

Greater.

Your Sister-Friend,

Leah