awesome power...

I've been thinking a lot lately about how God chose to solve major problems throughout Biblical history.

When the Egyptians were pursuing the Israelites, God parted a sea and then drowned the Egyptians in the middle of it.

When God wanted to defeat a mighty nation to bring His people into the land He had promised them, He had them march around the city a bunch of times playing musical instruments and yelling. 

In one battle, God "defeated" an army by striking them all with blindness.

 

When thousands of people needed food, Jesus specifically told His disciples NOT to send them into town for food--He asked them to give the people food, instead, and when they couldn't, He did.

And so on and so forth. 

The pattern is clear. God chooses to solve problems in ways that defy human logic/power and display HIS power. Not ours. 

"But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him."

And so I wonder how God would choose to solve the problems in our world today.Extreme poverty? It seems as if He might provide them with food. AIDS? It seems as if He would simply heal them.

Money is good. I'm glad to send what little money I have and give what little time I have. But it seems as if God's solutions are far bigger than that. 

What if we ALL, every last Christian on this planet, started praying to the God "who is able to do immeasurably more than all we could ask or imagine." What if we asked Him to solve these enormous problems in HIS way, by HIS power, not our own?

Will you join me in prayer?