Our God Is Great

Sometime we think God will never show up. But it is like watching the old cowboy movies, sometime the hero waited until the last moment to rescue the one in danger.

Jesus came at the darkest hour of the night n the storm when the disciples were on the sea, but the main thing is that He came.

VI-WE SHOULD RELY ON GOD’S PLAN: 21-22

21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

22: Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

The word trust, means to rely on ,confident expectation, a firm belief.

ILLUSTRATION: Livingstone, in Africa, came to the Zambezi, and wanted to cross. The chief had been worsted by some treacherous trader, and had vowed to kill the next white man who came across. Livingstone, by his fluttering candle, turned to the Bible and read, as always, his evening passage, coming to the promise, “Lo! I am with you always, even to the ends of the world” (Matthew 28:20).

Closing the Book, he said, “It is the word of a gentleman of the strictest and most sacred honor; I will not flee.” He did not flee and was used mightily by God in Central Africa.

I do not always know what lies before me,

Or what of trial or test may be in store;

My steps are ordered, God will do the choosing,

He knows the way I take—need I know more?

GOD IS GREAT, HE IS FAITHFUL TO US, WILL WE BE FAITHFUL TO HIM?

CONCLUSION:

The Assyrians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans had their many gods—gods of war, gods of industry, gods of agriculture, gods of cities, gods of towns, and various others. But in all of paganism’s galaxy of gods, there never was one called “god of hope.” That is scarcely surprising. For in that ancient world, hope had become a despised delusion, long before our Lord was born in Bethlehem. The fact is, there is no hope for this sin-cursed world apart from the true God, the God of Christians. “Now the God of hope....” (Romans 15:13)