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Have you unknowingly led someone to Christ? You might well have done that; planted some tiny mustard seed thought when you were not aware you were doing it. Perhaps you verbally expressed your faith, or with a deed that was a visual shout let those around you know that you are a Christian.
As long as he is not that image,
He ne’re at rest will be.
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Matthew 13:31-32
Another parable he put before them,
saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took
and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown
it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air
come and make nests in its branches.
Have you unknowingly led someone to Christ? You might well have done that; planted some tiny mustard seed thought when you were not aware you were doing it. Perhaps you verbally expressed your faith, or with a deed that was a visual shout let those around you know that you are a Christian.
It
was the right moment or the right place and it changed their life. Their soul was ripe. Their need was great and it happened.
That
word or that deed was like a tiny mustard seed and it grew and grew and grew. In fact, it changed their lives to such a
degree that if you knew what you had done, it would have left you speechless.
Let me tell you one of
my favorite stories.
A
young teenager was walking toward his church in a building snowstorm but he
never made it there. As the storm
increased in intensity he realized he would do well just to make it to a tiny
chapel that was along the way.
And
so it was that he joined a very small group of Methodists, who were also affected
by the storm. Their own preacher had
been snowed in. Finding themselves
preacherless, a layman volunteered to speak in his place. He certainly hadn’t come prepared for such a
happening, but several weeks earlier
he had heard a sermon that he could not get out of his mind and decided to
share it. So as best he could, he
repeated it to the gathered group which included the teenager.
Time
and time again the layman quoted the words from Isaiah, “look unto me and be
saved, all ends of the earth.”
And
from that impromptu sermon, a tiny
mustard seed, planted in the heart of a teenage boy during a most unlikely occasion,
grew into a new and powerful faith. It
wasn’t that he had not believed before, but what he experienced was such a soul
deep moment that when he left the church, he was never the same again.
And his
name? Charles Haddon Spurgeon, one of
the greatest evangelists the church has ever known…who shook England for God
and won thousands to Christ.
And who did God speak through? A layman who probably thought, Someone must
speak for the Lord today, so it might as well be me…and so he stepped forward
and basically said, “I will do it.”
Back
in the mid 1700’s, there lived a man known as John Newton. A vagabond…a deserter from the British navy…a
soldier of fortune…a slave trader…certainly not one to be admired or held in
high esteem. But this child of hell
became a child of God. One day turned from the devil’s list of things to do and
picked up a Bible and saw that that list of promises and commandments that were
there were where he wanted to spend the rest of his life.
So the
devil’s loss became heaven’s gain for the new John Newton who could write a
dirty ditty with the best of them now wrote hymns. One that has provided so much comfort and
inspiration to millions is “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a
wretch like me. I once was lost, but now
am found. Was blind, but now I see.”
A miracle some would
could call it! And it was…the kind of
miracle that happens all the time…a tiny seed of faith planted that begins to
grow and grow and grow.
It
happens; repentance, redemption, a spiritual earthquake.
Friedrick Ruckert
wrote about such happenings this way…
In every man there lives an image
Of what he ought to be,As long as he is not that image,
He ne’re at rest will be.
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