God is Bigger

"So they called together all of the rulers of the Philistines and said, 'Send the ark of the god of Israel away; let it go back to its own place, or it will kill us and our people'." 1 Samuel 5:11

After the Philistines had defeated the Israelites at Ebenezer, they captured the ark of the covenant and took it back to Ashod. They placed it next to and image of the Philistine god Dagon. As the story says, " when the people arose early the next day, there was Dagon fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord!" Even after they set up the image again the following morning again they found Dagon before the ark of the Lord with his head and hands broken off and lying in pieces. After moving the ark to several different locations enduring devastation and outbreaks of disease caused by the wrath of God, the Philistine people finally cried out to their rulers for its removal and return back to Israel.

What a great story of the power that our Lord has over everything. No problem we face is big enough that He cannot handle. No god is big enough to defeat him. And when he moves into a new place, the other gods that dwell there must bow down and worship the name above all names.

Whatever, you are dealing with today, drugs, alcohol, pornography, or debt. None is too big for God to handle. He will defeat them every time and, as long as we trust that he will, we can enjoy the victory that God gives us over them. Too often however, we cannot see past the trials and we do not trust God enough to handle them and we intervene with our own solutions almost always creating worse problems than we had to begin with.

We must learn to let God be God and trust that he will defeat the Dagon in our lives in his time using his path. "Who can stand in the presence of the Lord, this holy God?" the Philistines said. No one, without the saving power of the Lord Jesus Christ!

My prayer: Whatever the issues Father that we face, none are bigger than you. Help us Lord to let you have all of these problems and concerns and then make us stay out of the way so that you can defeat them and receive all of the glory. In Jesus name I pray, Amen!