As I wrote previously, I lived in Hawaii for four years when I was growing up. Our house was on Ohana Nui Circle. We lived in that house from the time I was 3 years old until, I finished the first grade. A small house seems very big to one so little. I shared a large bedroom with my brother and in my mind that room was at the end of a long hall that led to our living room. At the back of our living room was glass doors that led me outside to a great big yard. 

A little over 20 years ago, my family had the opportunity to go to Hawaii. Because my dad was with us, we were allowed to go back onto the Hickam Air Force Base, to see the house in which we lived. In fact, the family now living there allowed us to go back inside. What a surprise, what to my young little eyes was a huge house, was in fact very small. The big bedroom and the long hall somehow shrunk with time. You know why, I grew up and what was big to small eyes had become small to big eyes.

Too often, that happens to us in our relationship with God. When we realize how small we are we recognize how big God really is. But too often, we grow big in our own eyes. The bigger we are in our eyes; the smaller God seems to us. Unfortunately, we easily become self-absorbed. John the Baptist could have easily done so. He was as Jesus said, the greatest of the prophets. He had a great following and could have kept a great following, but He said, I must decrease so that Jesus might increase (John 3:30).  If your God is too small, then maybe it is because you are too big.