He is not small.

This little cheap god we've made up is one you can pal around with--"the Man upstairs," the fellow who helps you win baseball games. That god isn't the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He isn't the God who laid the foundations of the heaven and the earth; he's some other god....He's not the true God. He's not the infinite perfect, all-knowing, all-wise, all-loving, infinitely boundless, perfect God. He's something short of that. Christianity is decaying and going down into the gutter because the god of modern Christianity is not the God of the Bible. I don't mean to say that we do not pray to God; I mean to say that we pray to a god short of what he ought to be. We have got to think of God as being the perfect One.

~A.W. Tozer

That's convicting. At least it is to me. What's the use in claiming to follow a god if he isn't really God. THE God. Sure I'll tell you that God answers prayer and that He's faithful to keep His promises, but then I'll turn right around and neglect to give financially because I'm in a pinch. Last time I checked, God promises to meet our needs. The problem is that my mouth says one thing, but my heart follows my brain, which tells me I need to keep that money to myself and get myself out of my own bind. Personal pronouns abound. And there is a stench. I suppose when you and I stop focusing so much on our carnal selves and start giving God some attention and respect--fear even--then we will start seeing Him work in huge ways. You see, we can't limit God's attributes or characteristics, but we can to a certain extent limit how He impacts our lives. He won't force us to be blessed. He won't do big things in our lives if we make Him small in our eyes.