The Greatness of God Revealed In Life

Let me tell you of the times I have seen God. These were not times of vision but they were glimpses of God’s greatness revealed in the events of my life.

I experienced God’s greatness as a seven year old child sitting in church one Sunday morning and feeling Him pull at my heartstings till he drew me down that aisle. Later, as a ten year old boy hiding in my closet as my parents fought and my dad left home. As I screamed in fear and shock God put his arms around me and would not let me go. As a teenager sitting on an Arizona hillside looking up at the stars and lost in the complexities and pain of growing up I felt God’s presence was beside me. As a 14-year-old walking the aisle with tears running down my cheeks and hearing myself say to the pastor, “I want people to know Jesus like I know Jesus” and realizing He had called me to preach.

I have seen God in the sunset, and heard him in the thunderstorm. I have felt his overpowering love as I’ve held each of my newborn children or looked deeply into the eyes of my wife. I have seen his power in the life of every drunk, every drug addict, and every child of Satan that he has saved and made a child of God. I have felt his presence like warm air drive the chill of death from the hospital rooms of his sick and dying children. I have seen God in the lives of the redeemed and I have heard him shout to my soul in the pages of scripture.

Therefore I stand today as a witness of who He is and what He can do. I can do nothing else; I have experienced the greatness of God.