I was born and raised in Tulsa, Ok. I don’t do a lot of “Adventure”. Not because I don’t like it. I love it! I just don’t get around to it as often as I am able.
This weekend I went too Denver, CO. It’s the first time I’ve been to Colorado. The first time I’ve seen a LEGIT mountain, sorry Arkansas. It was absolutely just ridiculous. I can’t really describe the scenery. It’s just something you have to see for yourself. It’s everything you see on TV and more. It is really overwhelming and humbling. Sitting at the tops of mountains you can see everything. The city, plateus, lakes, ponds, etc.. I haven’t done many things like this. So, for me it was captivating. All I could think about was this life, myself, the world, the brokenness of humanity, my brokenness. It’s all bigger than me. Like I’m just one person in this enormous world.
Being on top of this huge mountain I kept thinking about how great our God is. Just the beauty of the scenery was a lot to take in!
With that being said I started to think about this scripture.
John 14:12 “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” Jesus, man he did so much. He calmed the wind and the waves, opened blind eyes, opened deaf ears, raised the dead, fed THOUSANDS, with a couple of fish and loaves of bread.
John lets us in on a lil some some.
“Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”
– John 21:25
I don’t know about you. But when I think about how great our God is. This is what comes to mind! I mean how amazing would it be to see all of that, how great!
I kept reading John tell me, greater things than these I will do. My first thought is I don’t know, God. That is going to take a lot of faith to calm a storm or to heal. I kept thinking about “Greater things shall you do.” Over and over and over. It’s like yeah, Father, I know I’m going to do greater things than you have done. You said it, I believe it.
God has done GREAT things in my life. He’s given me a vehicle when I had none. He’s literally paid my way through college and carried me through it. He’s provided every single time. God SHUT DOWN A BANK because I needed more money on a loan on my first vehicle. (ask me about it I’ll tell you about it).
You know what the G R E A T E S T thing God has done for me in my life? He used someone to speak the gospel in my life. He raised me from death to life. He saw my situation and deemed it necessary to die on a cross. The greatest thing that’s ever happened to me is God showing me his love towards me is unconditional.
Once, I was dead in my trespasses. Once I was alienated from the living God.
Are miraculous healings and physically dead people going to rise. Yee! Bless God! But you want to talk about greater!? How about the living GOD’S LOVE, GRACE, PEACE, JOY, HOPE, FORGIVENESS Indwelling in me! He is the embodiment of those things and by his spirit I have those things!
For many days ahead people will look at us Christians in the last day and say, I saw God in you. That message you preached, God spoke to me in that. What is greater was someone seeing God in you and you leading them from death to life! The bible says there will be rejoicing in heaven when one sinner repents! What’s greater to me? Seeing someone experience God’s love and that become their reality!
Lord, help me to not forget your saving grace for myself and others. Help me to remember what you accomplished on the cross and rising from the grave and to share it with others. Help me to be more like you. Father, help me to be a fisher of men. Help me to realize that I can not accomplish any of this my own. Give me your eyes, your strength, your love for others. Lord help to forgive and to love myself. Help me to never forget the great commission. Help me to remember that you have made a way for EVERYONE.
Matthew 28:19
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”
