Facing Your Giants!

                Giants come both big and small, public and private. They are whatever seems larger than us and/or our resources or abilities to overcome or complete the task. Maybe like half a page of blank screen onto which I am to write something entertaining and thought provoking so much so that you will consider and complete a life change for your spiritual development (no pressure). Giants come in the form of desktop computers and devices they attempt to connect to. I have been struggling with a computer and mixer for some time for several hours at a time. Giants are the daily commute on GA 21 with an accident at I-95 (duh). Giants are a looming health concern for which a clear choice of treatment there is not (Yoda like). Giants are boredom with relationships, our purpose and passion. A giant might be a toddler in the “terrible 2’s” or an inattentive spouse at home. They come in all shapes and sizes. Our methods for dealing with those giants are as varied as the size and type of giants. However, most if not all but one are simply coping and not really dealing with the giant.

                The real beginning of the defeat of our giants is gaining a proper perspective of the problem. It is a problem of image. Not one of the giant being so big but our view of ourselves being too small. It’s called the grasshopper complex. When Israel was ready to cross the Jordan to claim the promised land of God, they sent a recon team of twelve men into the land to get an idea of what they were up against. They returned after 40 days to say the land was indeed flowing with milk and honey and brought back a branch of huge grapes. They also reported the people were strong and big.

“We can’t go up against the people because they are stronger than we are!” ³² So they gave a negative report to the Israelites about the land they had scouted: “The land we passed through to explore is one that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great size. ³³ We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim! To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them.” Numbers 13:31-33 HCSB

Yep it’s an image problem. We see ourselves as too small and therefore our god as too small because we make our god our size. Nothing could be further from the truth. That is alone the largest giant to overcome.

                As a result it took Israel 40 years to change their view of God. Facing a giant today? How you look at it narrows or expands your view. Question: Is your giant bigger than you? OK, is your giant bigger than your God? That's what I thought. "Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty." Zech 4:6 HCSB   What we need is a bigger God. Not because he is too small but because our view of him is too tiny.

Bro G