Big Asks

Since a recent sermon on why we don’t ask big things of God, I’ve been thinking about the changes we want to see that we don’t ask for because it seems like they’re just too big, and if I put all of my hope and faith behind it and it doesn’t happen I’ll end up more crushed than if I hadn’t hoped in the first place.  It seems that I’ve stopped hoping for the really big things because I can’t imagine all of the intricate pieces of the puzzle that would have to fit into place for them to come about.  I’ve been reminded the last couple of days that God holds those pieces in His hands and amazingly he knows just where they go.   I’ve been a Christian for 5 years now…but God was carefully configuring the pieces of my puzzle long before that.  My sister became a Christian when I was a sophomore in high school and shared with me all of her newfound joy and excitement, which I was somewhat intrigued by.  There was an opportunity here that I missed though and I ended up deciding that my sister was kind of crazy.  I believed there was a God, but I didn’t believe we could know anything more than the fact that he exists.  She spent seven years…7 YEARS…praying, fasting, believing that God was going to redirect me.  All the while she had to watch as I partook of all that college life had to offer…going from one thing to the next on an ever more desperate search for ephemeral happiness.  Until senior year in college when through a series of manuevers on God’s part and serious faith on my sister’s part I came to know Christ.  All of this is to say that God is impressing this upon me “I AM a big ask and that gives me the faith to ask big.”  All I have to do is look at my own life and see how radically it was changed and I can know that nothing is impossible.  I think I need those reminders more often, because they are glimpses into the character of God, reflections of His sovereignty and faithfulness.

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