Psalm 2:8 – “Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession.”
The context of today’s Old Testament One Year Bible reading in the second psalm is a prophetical reference to the Lord Jesus Christ. There is a principle in this verse that I believe is applicable to all believers without violating the purpose of the text. God invites us to ask big things of Him. Prayer is the vehicle that needs to be employed to apprehend largely.
In 1952 J.B. Phillips authored a book titled Your God Is Too Small. I think modern-day Christianity is afflicted with this mindset. Our prayers are not commensurate with the God we serve. They are relegated to the puny and the trivial. While God is interested in the minutest details of our lives, we limit God’s intervention in the earth because of our perspective on the bigness of the object. Away with such thinking! We serve a big God who is quite capable of more than we ask or think (Ephesians 3:20).
In today’s New Testament reading Joseph is warned by God three times in dreams to take the child Jesus to different geographical locations. If we would be responsible for so great a mission in our lives, if we would dare attempt such great things for God, if we would but look at this new year without boundaries and through the lens of God’s greatness, we might receive such dreams and divine instruction. So go ahead, and attempt big things for God this year. When you do, get ready for the supernatural.