"l will be your God throughout your lifetime ... " Isaiah 46:4

I suppose that if I had to write this letter to you in my own handwriting as opposed to via the keyboard, you probably wouldn't be able to read it. Like Paul's letter to the Galatians I would say, "Notice what large letters I use as I write ... " My handwriting has never been a thing of beauty but now it's hardly legible! I was going over some notes I made to myself the other day, and I couldn't read them. I don't know if it was because I can't write, or because I can't read very well without my glasses now. Probably both. Oh well, at least I have most of my hair-and yes, I know it's getting grey!

A few of my friends have already hit that big 5-0 marker, and Ann and I have rounded third and are headed home. Here's where I say 'time flies.' Even as I am seeing the signs that I am knee deep in middle life, I am amazed and thankful for God's continued providence in my life. He has always been bigger than every challenge, obstacle and trial I have faced.
A short time ago, I re-read (with my glasses on) C.S. Lewis' book 'Prince Caspian' so it would be fresh in my memory (what's left of it) when the film came out. There's a scene from the book, and now the movie, that wipes me out every time I read it.

The Lion King of Narnia is Asian, a powerful Christ figure. Now, the youngest of the children who discovered Narnia is Lucy. And she hasn't seen Asian for a long time, and they have this touching reunion.

She says, "Are you bigger than the last time?" Here's the king's answer, "I'm bigger because you are older." And Lucy says, "Not because you are?" And he says, "Oh I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger."

That is how it seems to have been with me and Christ all these years. He hasn't changed since I met Him as a child. Yet with every growing, changing season in my life, I have needed a bigger God-and I've found Him, or should I say He has consistently found me. Of course I have found out you can't outgrow Him, but at times, in His grace and mercy when I happen to really 'gaze upon the face of God' I am prone to ask, "Are you bigger than last time?" As things--fill in the blank--become larger, I am seeing (without my glasses) how much bigger He is than I ever knew before.

Here's His cradle-to-grave promise for a life that matters:

"I will be your God throughout your lifetime-until your hair is white with age.
I made you, and I will care for you.
I will carry you along and save you" (Isaiah 46:4).

Remember, there's nothing you're going to face for which your God will not be big enough.

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