Why is God big?

I was having a conversation with my 7 yr old pupil the other day about how big God is.  One of my favourite ever scriptures is this 

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance? Is 40 v 12.

What this actually means is that God can hold all of the universes in the space between His thumb and his little finger - the span of His hand.  I LOVE that!  It just gives us the tiniest inkling into how big our God is.  He is MAHOOSIVE! 

Yesterday a thought flickered through my brain - and the thought was this.  I think I know why God has to be so big.  It's so that He can hold all the thoughts He has in His head.  😁

Now bear with me here - this might be a time for a little poetic licence.  But you see this past week or so my head has suddenly been filled to beyond capacity with people who need prayer.  Serious prayer.  Life saving prayer.  And I have been feeling quite overwhelmed with it all and right now my brain feels like its is going to explode with all the competing needs that are urgent and real.   I am not an intercessor so I maybe dont have a very big capacity for holding people in prayer.  I genuinely believe that some people have a gift of being able to pray and they probably have a massive head space when it comes to being able to think about and pray for and stand in the gap for folk in need.  Me, I'm an exhorter.  My job is mainly to talk to people and encourage them and hold people's hands and sometimes guide or lead or boot up the backside towards where they are supposed to be.   Sometimes that involves praying.  But not like this past week has demanded.

I was just thinking about this and wondering how I could stop all the important things competing in my head and I found myself thinking - no wonder God is so big.  He has the needs of every single person on the planet in His head!!!  ( Matt 6 ;32)  He never forgets about any of his children.  He is interceding for all of us all the time.  And Im pretty sure He doesn't rank us in order of importance with regard to prayer.  I dont think He says ' Oh Caz seems to be doing fine just now she can go to the bottom of the pile while I focus on sending the angels into ICU'.   I think we are all on the top of His pile all the time.

I can't really manage to keep more than about three people on the top of my pile at any one time. 

Often when we think about prayer we think about our prayers going up to God and Him answering them ( Im reminded of that scene in Bruce Almighty when Bruce gets given the job of answering prayers - post-it-note-central 😁)  But I don't often stop to consider the fact that Jesus is praying for me.  And for you and everyone who loves Him. ( Romans 8:34)  What is He praying for me?  What is His heart's desire concerning my life and my relationships and my work and my future?  He has a plan for me and is praying that plan into being ( I think)  Why would He NEED to pray for me?? Surely if God has a will for my life that will should just happen without the need for Jesus to be praying it into existence?   It's a mystery. Something to do with the relationships in the Godhead, and the way God works- the internal logic of God if you like.

The more I learn about The ' me to God'  prayer the more Im coming to realise that praying is not really about us telling God stuff.  He knows all about everything so there's not much point in giving Him information.  I think prayer is much more about gaining access to the heart of a compassionate and deeply involved Father and catching a glimpse of what He is feeling and willing and doing.  Then joining in and feeling, willing, doing that thing too. And the amazing thing is that for each of us that glimpse will be different.  We will all see and feel different things and pray uniquely to express the heart of God out into the universe and in the face of the powers and principalities which are battling against us. God doesn't have a mouth except for us.  And His spoken word is so very important in bringing His will to be on the earth.  The Holy Spirit doesn't pray quietly.   He groans

Im very thankful that in all the situations requiring my prayers at the moment there are countless others praying too.  Each of us has a piece of the prayer puzzle and every word we are all praying is bearing fruit. When I feel overwhelmed maybe it is because I mistakenly feel that I am carrying burdens on my own,  But of course Im not. I never am.  I'm just carrying a drop in a bucket of the compassion and the passion and the warfare Jesus is experiencing as He intercedes.   Im really really glad He is so big.