August 12, 2017 Devotions
Your G-d is Too Small – Managing Director 

“Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. The cry of the Israelites has now come to me; I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them.” Exodus 3:7-9

The CEO’s and managing directors of large corporations often are seen as people who only care about their own wealth, egos and status. They have achieved their success on the backs of many, many small and insignificant people – but they are too important to care about them. So, thinking in terms of these large, mega-corporations, when we think of the G-d who created such a vast universe, it is easy for us to understand how some people would conceive of G-d as such a managing director. G-d is the grand CEO and we are just the insignificant “workers” who are to do G-d’s bidding. It is an easy jump to descend to the conception that our G-d who created both the heavens and the earth down to the most minute quark would have no interest in a single human life. Of course, this may be of enormous comfort for some thinking this lets them off the hook for personal responsibility – after all, there are enough others who are doing much worse things and most likely they will be the ones this distracted G-d might pay some attention. Now, this may be possible if you work for Amazon, or Apple, but we cannot simply assign these limited and inadequate human understanding and limitations to our “Big” G-d. For if you do, then your G-d is much Too Small.

G-d is not just a divine CEO who cannot spare even the smallest fraction of time to attend to the last, lost, least and little of all societies. Instead our G-d is an awesome G-d who has limitless capacities for holding all things, all creatures great and small in G-d’s care and concern. Think again of the people laboring in Egypt for four hundred years – they must have considered that G-d had just forgotten about them – that G-d had many more concerns than to hear their pleas and their cries for mercy. But G-d tells Moses “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry…” We may not be able to hold more than two concepts or ideas in our minds at one time – but the mind of G-d is nothing we can possibly find a comparison. Yes the mighty computers we create today may give us a concept to compare, but they are, truly a weak comparison at best for the immensity of G-d’s capacity for thought. But what has been revealed to us of the capacity for G-d’s love and mercy and Grace seen through Jesus Christ is but a limited view of G-d’s awesomeness.

Pastor Dave