Optimism is all about viewing things in a positive manner. Pessimism is a whole different ball game. An optimist will see a baseball through his classic car’s windshield as a victory. That chipped and scarred glass will now be just like new. A pessimist will only moan that stuff like this happens every time the car is left on the street.
An optimist sees her crowded home as filled with God’s blessings. A pessimist complains that her house is never big enough. If God loved her, he’d provide her with a home large enough for her needs.
How we view things determines our satisfaction with life. Solomon of antiquity took this lesson to heart. 2 Chronicles 6:18 gives us his incredibly far-sighted and uplifting view of his relationship with God:
“But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house which I have built!”
Solomon’s words illustrate the true vastness of God’s nature. Modern scientists tell us there are billions of stars in the universe. The Bible tells us God scattered the stars across the heavens. If all creation happened at the hands of God, then God is so much bigger than that which he has created.
How great is our God! That old song speaks the truth, that God is bigger than we ever imagined possible. Solomon was right. The heavens and earth cannot contain our glorious Lord. Any church we build will house but a small fragment of the vastness which is our Savior and King. When we gather together to worship him, he is there in our presence, and by his very nature, we are bursting at the seams with his power and majesty.
We can look at our existence on this one tiny world surrounded by the vastness of the universe, and we can see our insignificance. That’s the pessimistic view. Instead, let’s imagine God pressing as much of himself as he can manage into our souls, our homes, and our churches, filling us up until we can no longer contain him. There’s more of him than we have room for. We need have no fear that he will ever come up short in any way at all.
Let’s be optimists for God. It’s the only way to view the Master of All Creation.
The only thing we don’t have enough of is room to contain all the blessings of our glorious God.
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