capacious: able to contain much; roomy.

“God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others” (2 Corinthians 9:8).

“Unbelief fixes its gaze on men, and things, and likelihoods and possibilities and circumstances. Faith will not concern herself with these; she refuses to spend her time and waste her strength in considering them. Her eye is on her Lord; and she is persuaded; that He is well able to supply all her need, and to carry her through all difficulties and straits” (F.B. Meyer, The Shepherd Psalm).

One day I was journaling to God about how incapable I felt, especially regarding the workload this semester. In His gentle way, He reminded me that He was able and capable. While I was looking up the word capable in my handy dictionary, I came upon the adjective: capacious. Struck by the immensity of this one word’s meaning, I found a new way to describe God. This word was big enough to encompass all of God’s character.

Now that I know this word, I have a new lease on life. When I start feeling inadequate, because—really—I am; I say, “God, You are capacious!” I smile to myself because the word feels like a made-up word. But it’s not. It sounds like capable and spacious merged together. And then I laugh, for since God is spacious there’s so much room in His love. And God is capable of accomplishing so much more than I ever could imagine.

I am experiencing His capacious love, grace, and strength on a daily basis. I am often juggling homework, housework, and heart work. I recognize my limitations. But I rejoice that God can contain so much more than I can. Sometimes I believe He purposely places us in a situation where we have to rely on His capacious nature. Won’t you enter into His presence, and just see how roomy God really is? He’s waiting for you and for me.  —submitted by Kel Rohlf, US