Sometimes life is tough. Sometimes we feel like David, slinging only a small stone at a giant problem, and our greatest fear is that we will just make the problem worse. Sometimes things just work out better when we call in the big guns, when we use a real Power Tool! How about starting with this little quiz, to put things into perspective?
If you need to chop an old oak tree into pieces small enough to fit into your fireplace, you would use:
- your bare hands
- a butter knife
- a small hatchet
- a hefty chain saw (Power Tool)
If you needed to calculate the total material costs to build a 250,000 square foot building, you would use:
- your fingers
- a pencil
- a calculator
- a computer program designed exclusively for this task (Power Tool)
If you absolutely had to be in a town across the country from where you are right now, and you had to be there before tomorrow night, you would travel by:
- walking on your own two feet
- bicycle
- car
- an airplane or private jet plane (Power Tool)
If you needed the support of someone to help you through a really big crisis, you would first turn to:
- your inner self
- your next door neighbor
- your closest relative
- Someone who has every resource imaginable (and then some) at His very command (Power Tool)
You should notice that each set of answers goes from “YOU” … to something else…. to a Power Tool. You can see where “Power Tools” work better in every situation than trying to manhandle things by yourself. The point is this: No matter how big or how small the problem, task, or crisis may be … you have the greatest tool imaginable to tackle them all. Don’t grab for the smallest tool to tackle the most insurmountable problems. God is with you. He has ever resource at His command. He has promised that if you have faith as small as a mustard seed (which is really very, very small), you can move mountains! He’s the biggest tool in your life’s tool box.
No problem is too large for Him. If you think your problems are too large or too overwhelming, then you are underestimating the size and the awesome power of God.
Instead of reminding God how big your problems are, remind yourself how big God is!
If you think your problems are too small for such a majestic God to worry about, remind yourself that although he is God, he also calls you “Friend.” His greatest desire is to have that special, intimate, personal relationship with you. He wants you to want Him to help you.
When life is tough, use your own two hands… to put them together in prayer to reach for the greatest Power Tool available: the POWER of an awesome God who wants to be actively involved in your life. Put your problems into proper perspective, under the power and control of the One who lovingly calls you, “Friend”.
In John 15: 12-15, Jesus said: “ Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”
