This is a tough title. How could God be ‘not God enough” but that
seems to be the box that most people, at one time or another try to put Him in.
Books have been written around the idea that the God we envision is way smaller
than the reality of God. We dream too
small, and we pray too small. We expect too little of the God of the universe,
the God that is bigger than anything that we can imagine. When we don’t believe
in the greatness of God, we don’t believe that He is capable of caring for all
of our needs, and so we try to take control.
And when mere humans tackle God sized jobs, thinking that God needs our
help, the results are often disastrous.
Using scripture,
personal stories and the stories of friends and acquaintances, in Not God Enough: Why Your Small God Leads to
Big Problems (Zondervan, 2018) J. D.
Greear talks about how we miss out on all that an infinite God can do when we try
to understand Him with our finite minds. He reminds us of how big, how great God
really is; and reminds us of God's promises to us. We might be small, but God is
bigger than any of us can imagine. We say I can’t but God reminds us that what
for man is impossible, is not a problem for God. With God in us, we can do so
much more than anyone can imagine.
This book
is a call to humility. When we think we’ve got it all together we tend to
forget that wee need God. When we’re humbled, broken, and convinced that we can’t,
then we’re willing to turn to God, and let God do through us what we can't do
for ourselves.
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