Have you heard of Billy Graham? He was a pastor who was at the forefront of revivalist movements that took place around the world. He was a channel for approximately 2.5 million people to convert.
This wise man, who lived the Word of God so intensely, said a sentence that really caught my attention. I always try to remember it when I’m having a hard time.
“Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us.”
Billy Graham
Change of Measure
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding”
Proverbs 3:5
When our expectations and faith are focused on things other than God, it is normal for us to be exposed to fear, anxiety, hopelessness, and thoughts of giving up.
Understanding that the greatest strength man can achieve would still be weakness before God, is also understanding how He is greater than everything and how we are nothing. If we are so small and fragile close to the Lord, our thoughts and feelings are also smaller than His and that’s why we can trust completely in this love and care from heaven.
Just as we see in 1 Corinthians 1:25:
“For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.”
Everything we have as a parameter in this world that makes us understand height, depth, size… everything fits in the hands of the Father.
Underfoot
“The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.“
Revelation 21:21
This passage from Revelation 21 is not meant to give you a feeling of ostentation or pride. The idea of this passage is to show that gold, close to God and His kingdom, loses so much value that, having no use at all, it exists only to be stepped on.
What is supernatural for us here, will be natural there. What once meant wealth here in the world, in the Lord’s presence becomes just parts of a door or the material of a floor.
See that this passage shows you that the glory of heaven is not gold, the glory of heaven is not based on riches that we can measure. The glory of heaven is God. And in the face of this glory, everything else loses the importance that had before.
Nothing above Him
“You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.”
1 John 4:4
When your dependence is only on God, when you understand that you live only for Him , the thought is: “If He said He’s going to do it, He’s going to do it and I don’t need to be running to speed it up what He promised“.
A God who has everything that exists under his feet could give you less than you dream? His will is better than ours.
Remember that the highest your mind can reach is still the simplest beginning of the Lord’s thought. With our smallness, when we reach the maximum of our imagination we are still dreaming low, because, without realizing it, the limits of the environment we are in stop us from going further in thought.
But nothing limits the Lord, nothing stops Him, because everything is smaller than Him. For this reason, we often arrive at places where we think “How did I get here? It has to be God“. Yeah… it was Him! Without Him you would only get as far as your mind can reach.
Then trust this God. Because if nothing is greater than Him, no other work will be greater than His!!
