How Huge Is Your God? By Rodney Howard Browne

Let us Follow the Lord by Rodney Howard Browne

When God eventually does talk, He answers Job out of a windstorm. Would it have been excellent for us to once have been there? Whoosh. It must have taken Job’s breath away when the Lord “answered Job out of the whirlwind” ( Job 38:1 ). Many years ago ( I was less than 10 years old ) on a still and silent morning, long before dawn, I was fishing with my pa.

Our small fourteen-foot fishing ship was sitting on a slick, in a little body of water just this side of Matagorda Bay. We had our lines in the water, and neither of us was exclaiming a word. My father was at the cruel by the old twenty-five-horsepower Evinrude, and I was up close to the bow of the ship. It was one of those mornings you might flip a penny onto the outer layer of the water and then count the ripples.

All of a sudden , from the depths of the bay close to the hull of our ship, comes this massive tarpon in full strength, bursting out of the water. He does a big-time flip in the air, then plunges with a big crash into the bay.

I must have jumped a foot off my wooden seat, shaking with fear.

Still watching his line, he announced noiselessly, “I told you the huge ones were down there.”. When He speaks there’s no voice like His.” Job’s view of Our Lord God may have been enlarged, thanks to his mate’s last remarks. When your God is too little, your issues are too large and you retreat in fear and insecurity. But when your God is great, your issues pale into insignificance and you stand in astonishment as you worship the King. Remember : the more that you know God, the bigger He becomes.