IF YOU EVER FEEL LIKE GOD HAS FAILED...

IF YOU EVER FEEL LIKE GOD HAS FAILED…

A prolific Christian author, Max Lucado, penned a powerful illustration in his insightful book entitled “A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm.”  It goes something like this…

Once there was a man who dared God to speak.

“God, burn the bush like you did for Moses and I will follow.
God, collapse the walls like you did for Joshua and I will fight.
God, still the waves like you did on Galilee and I will listen.”

And so the man went and sat by a bush, near a wall, close to the sea; and he waited for God to speak.

And God heard the man; so God answered.
He sent fire, not for the bush, but for a church.
He brought down a wall, not of brick, but of sin.
He stilled a storm, not of the sea, but of a soul.

And God waited for the man to respond.
And he waited…
And waited…
And waited…

But because the man was looking at bushes, not hearts; bricks, not lives; seas and not souls, he decided that God had done nothing.

Finally he looked at God and asked, “Have you lost your power?”
And God looked at him and said, “Have you lost your hearing?”

Our prayer today is the echo of a familiar praise chorus: “Open the eyes of my heart, Lord, I want to see You.”

Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING.  Maranatha!