You Can Never Outgrow God

 Do you think you can outgrow your God?

Do you think because your situation now in life is different, feels much harder than those you faced 5,10 years ago, that his power won’t do anymore?

Do you think that the God you’ve know and loved so much when you were younger, is distant and different now that you’re married and have a family?

Do you think, just because you were single then, God can handle you and your “single” problems; but now you’re married and have a special child, that your God is now too small for your “many” problems?

Do you believe that your problems now with special needs parenting and the future of your kid are too complicated and hard for God?

Do you think he has turned a deaf ear to your problems, and seem cold and distant and hard to reach for you, compared to when it was just the two of you?

Do you think he is not as involved now with you because you have so much on your hands?

Think again. 

Just because you “feel” like he is far away, because you’re drowning with too many things and sometimes all at once, drowning and at the same time feeling like God isn’t responding to you; or if when he is, it feels like it’s because this time you've prayed hard enough, bible studied more solemnly this time, or etc that his response is because of something good you did?

Ayiin, the God you’ve known from all these previous entries here in your younger years is still the same God whom you pray to now that you’re in this chapter of your life. He never changed!

He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His Word hasn’t changed. His truth and promises are still the same. They are yours and for you in Christ! Jesus is not a “was”. He didn’t stay in the grave. He’s risen! And to where you might ask? To sit at the right hand of God. Why? To intercede for us, of course!

Your prayers now are not different from those prayers you prayed before. They may differ in content, and even feel meaty now because it’s not just your own needs you carry to the throne, but all your family’s needs! So yes, they may differ in content and pleas. But they are still handled and are heard by the same Divine Ears and felt by the same gentle and lowly heart. It’s still the same God who listens and hears and answers them. It is still the same God who daily bears our burdens. It is still the same God you know when your heart was full and waiting on him. 

Still the same God who has compassion on you then. Still the same God who made those promises you found comfort in. Familiarity breeds complacency but it doesn’t make them not true. 

Ayiin, pray for fresh eyes. Pray that the promises of God may awaken your dormant heart that is weighed down and numbed by the many cares you have. 

And wait. 

Wait for him. Hope in him. Trust in him. He is still the same God. He is still for you. He is still with you. Every step of the way. In every day. Even unto your old age.