Thought for Saturday, June 29th

June 29, 2013                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

The End of the Beginning

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

John  14:12

“Measure not the work – Until the days out and the labor done.”

-          Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Have you ever stopped to consider the preponderance of all the things that Jesus did in just the three and a half short years of His ministry?  This does not include his ability to confound the priests in the temple when He was still a pre-teen.

Jesus taught with authority: He turned water into wine: He healed the lame, the sick the deaf and the blind:  He brought dead people back to life: He cast demons out of naked crazy people and brought them to a place of peace, calm and soundness of mind:  He ministered hope to the despondent and brought help to the needy:  He fed multitudes with nothing but morsels: He enlightened the world by revealing the Father to them and so much more.  He was nothing short of amazing, miraculous and awe-inspiring.

Add to this that He suffered rejection, false accusations, physical torture and death for no other cause than that He loved us and desired to do the will of His Father.  And then as if that were not enough He arose from death three days later, just as He had promised He would do.

He never lied, never sinned and never fell short of all that God expected of Him. 

And yet, He told His disciples and thus tells us that we can do even greater things than He did if we believe.   So do you ever wonder why we are so limited in our effectiveness of service and why we fall so short of doing more than amazing things, in His name for our Father’s kingdom?

The potential is there.  The possibilities are endless.  Yet something is amiss for we are, for the most part, not doing anywhere near what He did.

Do we really believe?  Is our faith that limited?

What needs to change in us so that we can see the fulfillment of this promise realized and actualized in and through our lives? 

Prayer:

Father, I know I am not all that I can be, and not even close to all that I want to be: which must make me really far away from all that you desire me to be.  Help me believe more, so that all that you are can become all that I am.