God is Great

It is far easier to always know God is great than God is good. Does anyone who is a theist doubt that God is great? If He created all that is, it seems that there couldn't even be argument on that issue. Even if you believe in God the watchmaker, He is big enough to have created and walked away. Now if your perspective is Kantian, He is now dead, then maybe we could argue but the only real argument then would be, could the creator qualify as God if He ceased to exist.

The statement God is great is an enormous statement of faith and a wonderful place to begin, so wonderful in fact that it could be the summary statement of Genesis 1, John 1, and Ephesians 1 just to get started. Beginning with God is a good place to begin a prayer, beginning with "God is" is better still. A declaration concerning the greatness of God should get our attention as to what kind of God we are praying to. The God that even Jonah proclaimed on board ship as "the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land." (Jonah 1.9) Would it be worth praying to a lesser God if a great one was available?

I don't want to deal with "Mother Earth" if I can deal directly with the One who created the earth do I? It isn't surprising that we invent such "deities" concerning the earth, sun, moon, stars and heavens, they are, in themselves, wonderful. We cling tenaciously to this life, spend enormous resources not just to understand it but to prolong it because we can't imagine anything better or more real. We are fortunate that this life has been good to us and for us, but it should raise our sights above ourselves and beyond ourselves to that greater something out there.