Show Through

     I had a joke pop up in my email inbox today. It was about a little girl asking her mother about the sermon they had just heard. She told her mother that the pastor said that God is bigger than us and asked if this was true. Her mother replied that it was. Then she said that the pastor told them that God lives inside of us and asked if this was true also. Again, her mother said that it was.
The little girl looked confused and asked, "if God is bigger than us and He lives in us, wouldn't He show through?" You can't help but smile at that kind of inquisitiveness, even though she appears to miss the pastor's point.
     Then I had to wonder, did she? Shouldn't God "show through" us? Of course He does among my church friends, but is He as visible when I am out in the rest of the world? If He isn't showing through, I need to ask the little girl's two questions.
     First, is God bigger than me? Not simply in size, but is God greater and more important than me? Obviously He is, but do I really believe it with all my heart? Does that truth still fill my heart with a sense of awe and reverence? Or have those become just words to me?
     In several places, the Bible calls us to reverence God. That word reverence is also translated fear, but not like terror that fills us with dread and a desire to flee and hide. It is more an awe that reminds me that He owes me nothing, I owe him all; He is huge and I and a speck; He is the source of all and the purpose for all.
     Secondly, does Jesus live in me, or more accurately, do I give Him full rights to live through me? If I am truly brought to awe at the immensity of who God really is; if I understand the depths of His love, that he would make a way to live inside of me and in relationship with me, how can i then not surrender to Him the right to live through me any way He desires?
     When we, His children, can rightly answer those two questions, God will certainly "show through".