When tragedy comes, we often hear "God is all we need." While that sounds fitting and even noble, resist the tendency to define God by what you need. While acknowledging God's sufficiency in a crisis is appropriate, the truth is that God is far more than what I need and what you need and what the whole world ever has needed or ever will need. If I self-prescribe blinders so that all I see is my need or hurt or wish, I place myself in danger of understanding God only according to the light of my own experience, thereby reducing Him to a shadow of myself. Does God care? Absolutely! Is God the solution? Without a doubt! But the Creator and Redeemer and Sustainer cannot be contained by my imagination or confined by my despair. Instead of asking God to act the way you want at any given moment in order to meet any given need, bow before Him and surrender yourself unconditionally to Him, and then allow Him to reveal His glory and plan in your situation. God is all I need, but He is infinitely more.
(Dane Fowlkes, Pastor)
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