Typhoon!

It's typhooning outside! It's sorta just strong winds and lots of rain. But it's sorta reminding me of how big and awesome God is compared to us.

So often I'm focused on myself and my own life and forget how much bigger God is than me. Like really, life is not about me, it's about Him. Maybe the whole history is "His story" thing is a little cliche, but really, it sort of gets the point across. To God, we're like specks of dust (speaking just on a size scale here, so don't misunderstand). How can I be so often caught up with my own wants and desires and thinking life is all about me. Even when reading scripture, so often do I focus on myself and personal application and continually fail to grasp how awesome and glorious God is.

But I think what really strikes me is how despite my smallness, God loves me and cares for me deeply and knows me from even when I was in my mother's womb. He adopts me as His son when I'm totally undeserving small speck of dust. And in fact, a dirty sinful speck of dust. But God still celebrates my being found, sacrifices His own son to find me and clean me, and puts His robes and ring on me.

I think this John Piper sermon in particular really hits at many of the unfathomable ways God makes so much of the Church. And how by loving us, He makes Himself an even more amazing God and father to us.

http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/how-much-does-god-love-this-church

And so I pray that in this busy season when not just weather but business and spiritual forces seem to be typhooning around me, I might be firmly rooted and grounded in the love of Christ as my strength and the object of my faith. That because of the love of Christ, I might yearn to pursue God and worship Him and be protected by Him, that I might live for His glory and for my joy.

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

(Ephesians 3:14-21 ESV)