Micah 1:3-4 Look! The LORD is coming from his dwelling place; he comes down and treads the high places of the earth. The mountains melt beneath him and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
Last summer, I was at a waterpark with my family. My 3-year-old wanted to play in the sand section because she wasn’t real fond of the slides and such. So I headed over to the toddler zone and we began to build. In all of our creativity, we decided we should build a mountain. There wasn’t much to it except pouring bucket after bucket of sand on our spot and watching it get bigger. We started with a little hill and as we went, it grew. We had an awesome mountain until we went to get some water to pour on it. I looked back to see another child heading straight toward our mountain. He proceeded to jump on it, flattening half of it with a single step. Mountain big, kid bigger. And there went the mountain.
Imagine now with me a real mountain. You could pick Mount Rainier or Mount Everest – it doesn’t matter really. People climb those mountains, tiny specks amidst an enormous object of nature. But God could step on it and crush it as fast as that kid and our work of sand. Mountain big, God bigger. Since we can’t see God and we know Jesus was the size of a Hebrew man, we may not imagine God with that large of a footprint. But the truth is, He wears some pretty big shoes. With a single step, He could flatten Mount Rainier. With a simple jump, Mount Everest would be squashed into the ground. He’s just that huge.
It’s miraculous to me that the same God who wears big shoes and holds the whole universe in His hands would care to know tiny little me. It’s humbling to know that this mountain crushing God used His power to crush the evil one and rescue me. He used His might not against me, but for me. So today I stand in awe of a God who can melt mountains and split valleys. I marvel at His greatness, His power, and His might. And I wonder why I ever get afraid when the obstacles of life seem too big to face. He’s bigger. He’s stronger. He’s my God.
Abundant Life 