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Text Box: Max Lucado tells a funny story about a time he met one his fans.  When he introduced himself to her, she didn’t believe it,  He writes...   She flipped open the dust jacket, looked at my picture, then up at me, “You’re not Max Lucado.” “Yes, I am.  The picture on the book was taken many years ago; I’ve changed.” With no smile she looked again at the photo, “No,” she insisted, “Max Lucado has a mustache, no wrinkles and a full head of hear.” “He used to,” I explained. She wouldn’t budge, “He still does.” I started to show her my driver’s license but opted to let her live with her delusion.  After all, if she wanted to remember me as a thirty year-old who was I to argue? Besides, I understand her reluctance.  Once you have someone pegged, it’s easier to leave him there.  She had me figured out.  Defined. Captured. Freeze-framed in a two by three image.  Max-in-a-box. p164   Unfortunately, as Max Lucado reflects, we do the same with God.  We have our “box sized gods.”  Gods that we can manage, control and predict.  We for some reason want a god that we can control, but our God is far from that.   I hope as you have gone through the small group study on “Fearless” your image and dependence on God has grown. For as Max Lucado says “When Christ is great, our fears are not.”   As Max points out to us from the book Prince Caspian, Lucy sees Aslan, the lion, for the first time in many years.  He has changed since their last encounter, his size surprises her and she tells him as much.   “Aslan,” said Lucy, “you’re bigger.” “That is because you are older, little one,” answered he. “Not because you are?” “I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.”   And so it is with Christ, the longer we live in him, the greater he becomes in us. p170   I hope you are finding the small groups inspirational as you confront your fears.  If you have not signed up or joined one, there is still time to do so.   In Christ Howard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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