God of the Gaps

Gaps can be a really good thing. Emotionally and spiritually, there are good gaps, or spaces, that are appropriately separate. Some gaps need to be brought together, to help things and people function as our Creator originally designed.

God has never been surprised by the great distances between each person and His holiness. Nor is He stunned by the gaps between people. This same Creator has always intended we would be His friends, and each other’s. Seeing the end of creation from before the beginning, He planned for the gaps.

The unconditional love and grace of our Creator is the only workable answer. “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:16-17 Sacrificing His only son was the only legal solution. We just need to accept the gift to repair the breach between God and people.

That is the God of the gaps!

Then we can consider relational gaps between people.

This is how the Good News gets even better. 

God is the giver and the sustainer of life. Because of that, the gaps in our everyday lives can be met with the same completeness as Jesus’ death and resurrection from.  Sometimes, however, we lose sight of God’s daily redemptive acts. Our Creator invites us to lean into Jesus for the grace to forgive and release those who offend and hurt us. We also have constant access to His power of redemption in our own lives.

The One who gave everything in exchange for us, invites us to draw on His strength as we face ordinary and extraordinary challenges. By pulling on Him we can experience comfort in our daily needs, allowing the God of the gaps to do what He does best, in us and though us. No other gods are able to fill these wounded gaps in us as effectively, gently, or lastingly as our Creator and Redeemer.

Our God is the God of the everyday gaps, not only the eternal gap.

Today, what gaps in your life is the “God of the gaps” inviting you to release to His grace?