Devotions

 Top That!

• Psalm 115:1 – Not to us, Lord, not to us but to your name be the Glory.

When Abraham Lincoln defeated Salmon Chase for President he made him his secretary of the treasury.  You know who’s face is on the five dollar bill but did you know there is still a 10,000 dollar bill.   Guess who’s face is on that one?  The answer is Salmon Chase. 

Dick Bass was the first man to ever climb the seven summits – the tallest mountain on all seven continents.  He was on a plane once and started talking to the passenger beside him about all of his adventures and how amazing it was to be at the top of those mountains and look at the view.  And the entire flight while he was going on and on about the majestic trek he had taken he failed to realize the passenger he was talking to was Neil Armstrong. Reminds me of the old story of the preacher who survived the Jamestown flood and then later died and went to heaven and asked Peter if he could tell the crowd in heaven about what it was like to survive the flood – and Peter said sure you can but remember Noah is in the audience.

I love what Stacy King – former Chicago Bull who played with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen had to say.  On a night when Jordan scored 69 points against Cleveland Stacy King scored 1 point.  But his quote in the paper was awesome.  He said – “ I will always remember this as the night Michael Jordan and I scored 70 points.

There are some incredible feats that have been done by some amazing people – but let’s put this in perspective.  There is a brilliance – a brightness, a majesty about God’s character that is so powerful it radiates from his being so much that the bible says no one can look on his face and live.  Our amazing Creator threw out the stars and knew where they’d land.  One word from him and everything we see and enjoy got it’s beginning.  There’s never been a moment in time when our Amazing God did not exist.   It’s the first line of that great old hymn.  I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout – the universe displayed.  We serve an awesome God.  It’s possible that every human accomplishment topped and outdone.  But no one will ever top the glory of our Great God.   Amen?