Who Are You Praying To?

So this morning, I read my devotional and a couple of questions grabbed me.  What do you see in your mind when you think about Jesus/God?  Do you see Jesus on the Cross or do you see Him seated at the right hand of God?  I guess I’d never thought about that before.  I almost always think of Jesus on the cross. I mean, I usually wear a cross as a reminder of His great sacrifice for my salvation. 

But by thinking of Him on the cross, how am I limiting His power in my life?  What do I not ask for because of where I see Him in my mind?  Jesus is so much bigger than the cross.  He holds the keys to Death and Hell (Rev 1:18).  God raised Him from the dead and He’s seated at the right hand of God.  The one and only living God who sits on the throne (heaven) and the earth is His footstool (Isaiah 66:1). 

Have you ever thought, when you’re going through a problem or there’s some obstacle that seems so big, the God who loved you enough to send His Son to die and shed blood for your sins is the same God who is resting His feet on the earth.  Needless to say, my mind was blown when I thought about it. 

That’s why God made it clear that His thoughts are so much higher than our thoughts and His ways so much higher than our ways (Isaiah 55:9).  We can’t think or imagine what He can do, because we can’t comprehend how vast and powerful He really is…..we don’t recognize how big He is.  Stop limiting God by your own thoughts, seek His.  Stop limiting God by your will, seek His (Matt. 6:33).   

We tend to fear what we don’t understand and can’t control.  If we trust God to lead and guide us knowing He is all-knowing and that He created and owns it all, why are we really concerned?  Is it because we don’t know the outcome?  No matter what we do, we won’t know it anyway.  We can guess but we can’t be sure. 

Trusting God to know what’s best and to have our best interests at heart, then being obedient to Him is the only sure way to know that everything will turn out okay (Romans 8:28), even when it doesn’t turn out the way we thought or imagined.  He’s got this, whatever it is.  Remember that the next time you pray.