God is bigger than my problems.

It sounds kinda Captain Obvious, but sometimes it’s easy for me to focus on the problem and not on the Problem Solver. I can get fixated on the wind and the waves and forget to look for the one walking on the water.

The problems look big. Sometimes, they’re all we can see. They take up so much of our sight, our time, our energy, our resources. It’s easy to forget that God is bigger. Even if whatever we’re facing is the size of the sun, remember that the sun is a speck in light of the universe. So is your problem next to an infinite God. It’s a grain of sand on the beach. A single star out of the night sky.

Even when the problem seems to go on and on, remember that God was before the problem (from eternity past) and will be after the problem (to eternity future). He is eternally before and after whatever you’re facing. To God, a thousand years is like a second, so my big huge dilemma that occupies so much of my waking life is like the blink of an eye to God. Less than the blink of an eye.

Better still, God knows. It’s one thing if God is so far above my problems that He’s oblivious to them, but He sees me. He sees the tiniest sparrow falling. He sees the hurt and suffering of every one of His children.

Whether God calms your storm or calms you in the storm, He is with you. Whether God removes your hardships or gives you grace to endure, He is with you.

And He is still bigger.