Great God, Be Glorified

I don't know exactly when it started. I can't pinpoint an exact moment of the day, or even my life for that matter when this change was brought about. Yet it has been becoming in its fullness more and more today. Perhaps it was the walking under a tree swaying in the breeze as its leaves fell upon me that fully opened my eyes that there's a change...the old must fall away in order for the new to come. As God ordains the seasons of nature, the days of the year, and the moments of which He is fully in (we do it injustice by calling it a minute of time), so He ordains the present and the future.

All around me I see these two extremes of people forgetting and people remembering. I see these extremes of people fully surrendering and others frozen in their lack of faith. I see it in myself so often too. Why do we forget those things that God has boldly declared? Why do we stand frozen unwilling to facilitate the means for God to move? God is fully faithful...He has never shown Himself otherwise. What He said He would bring about, He will do!

It was roughly 3 months ago when God began healing my hearing loss. Since that day, God has moved in so many tremendous ways with it. Lately, I have been reminded of how fickle the flesh is and how it is nothing of myself that brings this about. There have been people in my life who have believed since the beginning that God is fully capable of doing this and will do so. There are others in which God has changed their heart to see what He is doing. Others include ones in which they hear but their lack of faith holds them back. And there are others who may not be capable of understanding such a thing at this time, yet God is doing His great work in them. I am greatly encouraged daily by the ones who still believe, challenging me to continue to walk in faith in prayer and petition asking God for healing in its fullness. Yet I find myself saddened tonight to see that some are beginning to or have already forgotten. We do not wait on the Lord in our own timing; it is fully His. Our Lord never leaves any prayer unanswered; instead, we fail to believe.

Lord, help our unbelief!

"Oh Great God, be glorified. Our lives laid down, Yours magnified..."

There is nothing stronger in me that desires to see God glorified to the fullest. God healing my ears is not about me in the least. It's about Him awakening our eyes and hearts to see Him for who He fully is, despite our lack of trust and our unbelief. It's about Him fulfilling what He said He would do. It's about bringing His people to see Him in His full splendor, grace, and power.

What sin is in our lives that keeps us from receiving Him in the fullest? Where are the areas in which we lack to surrender? Where do we lack faith still?

Could it be that our hunger for God becomes satisfied and we feel content to sit back? Could it be that we are not desperate enough for Him, and we feel rich with what the world has to give?

These are the questions I continue to ask of myself, and I now ask aloud.

But Oh Great God!!!

Be GLORIFIED!

That is the cry of my heart...