Some rivers are too big to be crossed.
In 2004 a pair of British actors began a motorcycle trip around the world, intending to cross Europe and Asia, fly to Alaska, and ride all the way to New York.
They very nearly didn’t make it. In Eastern Russia, they traversed the Road of Bones, only to find multiple bridges washed out. The third river they came to was simply too massive to get their motorcycles across. They needed something bigger to make the passage.
They were rescued by an enormous six-wheeled Russian military-type transport that could drive submerged to the windshield. It not only got their motorcycles across, it also loaded up their support trucks and ferried them across, also.
Sometimes we need something bigger than our problems to get to the other side.
We have that in our God. He’s bigger than our problems, and there’s no river he cannot get us across. We can read of our mighty God here:
Job 40:15 tells us who is in charge of our problems:
“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.”
The Behemoth is analogous to our problem, and it only exists at the largesse of our mighty God. If God created it, God can surely defeat it.
Psalm 74:14 tells of the destruction of our problems:
“You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.”
That which seems to overwhelm us will become fodder to be cast aside. God is in control.
Isaiah 27:1 tells of the final destruction of all that wars against us:
“In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.”
Our problems are already destroyed. All we need to do is claim the victory in the name of our savior, Jesus Christ.
If that British duo hadn’t asked help of that massive truck that happened by, they’d still be defeated by that river. It was in the reaching out and in accepting the help that was offered that they mastered their river.
We are the same. We can fight the problems of this life, or we can reach to God. He has his hand out, and it’s the hand that created the world. It can lift us out of the world, if we will only let God do so.
When we face our biggest obstacles, we can know that our God is even bigger.
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