Have you ever been told something about someone and then when you get to know them you realize what you were told was just not true? Our experiences with people cause us to say things about people and God that may or may not be true about them. Was your experience legit, of course, but was your experience their character on display or a moment they were having or your observation of a moment?

I find more often than not people that do not trust God, do not draw near to God, do not want to have anything to do with or little to do with God is because they have misunderstood who He is. People read a story in the Old Testament and decide God is this angry, vengeful God who kills women and children. Our biblical illiteracy has become the enemies opportunity to tell us something about God that is just not true.

I was praying Psalm 147 this morning and verse 5 says, “How great is our God! There’s absolutely nothing his power cannot accomplish, and he has infinite understanding of everything.” If we don’t experience His power, we may not believe this verse is true about Him, but oh how much we forfeit when we trust experieces over the truth of God’s word.

Friends, God is the “X” factor in every situation. When we assume God can’t; God won’t; God doesn’t anymore; we are missing out on an intergral part of our help, healing and hope for whatever we are facing. Now I realize it does not always happen instantly or the way we pray, but I am telling you the truth is, “There’s absolutely nothing his power cannot accomplish, and he has infinite understanding of everything.”