Thursday, October 22, 2015

A MUSTARD SEED MOMENT

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          Of course, God makes the impossible possible… that’s the way He set up the whole of existence.  Take the wonder of birth – and all the years following called life.  You and I here this morning all because of the amalgamation of a tiny sperm and egg.  Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual soul-fed human beings living out our existence on a spinning globe in an unbelievably complicated and endless universe.

Some of you may have had a mustard seed moment, or are waiting for your mustard seed moment when the following is true –

I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew

he moved my soul to seek him, seeking me;

It was not I that found, oh Savior true;

No, I was found of thee.

       Do you believe God can make the impossible possible in your life?  I hope so.  I pray so.  I pray you have read the following scriptures and have been ready to have them speak to you.

       In Mark 9:23 we are told Anything is possible if a person believes.

And John 1:12 tells us to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

And in John 3:16 we are told …For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

       In the frigid waters around Greenland are countless icebergs, some little and some gigantic.  If you would observe them carefully, you’d notice that sometimes the small ice floes move in one direction while their massive counterparts flow in another.

The explanation is simple. Surface winds drive the little ones, whereas the huge masses of ice are carried along by deep ocean currents.

And so it is when we are moved by the eternal depth of God’s teaching and God’s presence and God’s power… we are no longer moved by shallow, everyday surface winds.  The shallow life is behind us and our lives now run deep.

       What I am talking about is finding, and holding on to, and giving thanks for…the best life possible.  A new soul-deep-person who shows it in word and deed.  That can be yours.

It can happen if you don’t stand in a ditch of despair and allow yourself to wallow there and not try to lift yourself out of that ditch by persistent prayer. 

It can be yours if you don’t live in the shadows rather than in the sunlight and take up permanent residence there.  But not if your eyes that once shone with hope and are now dull with hopelessness.  And not if you are content to crawl rather than climb; content to slog rather than soar.

It takes a brave and unrelenting faith to stay on the high road.  It takes getting up when you fall down.  And stumbling again and getting up again, and each time staying up a little longer.  All the time echoing the Apostle Paul’s words right up to your last day on earth, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”  (II Timothy 4:7)

Paul shouting at you down through the ages that the seemingly impossible is possible, it sometimes just takes awhile; and that it does take persistent patience and prayer…and lots of them.

You may never write a hymn that is still sung centuries after you die.  You may never be acclaimed by the masses.  But one by one, Christians who follow our Lord’s teaching do make this world a better place to live.  And make it happen one mustard seed moment after the other.

       I chose the scripture that began this sermon because it tells us that if we want impossible things to happen, we have to chase down and capture an impossible faith.  The kind of faith that leads others to ask, “How did you do it?” 

You see, a mustard seed really is terribly small, so insignificant it takes hundreds of them to make just a gram.  And if a man’s eyes are not good, he has to actually put on glasses to be able to see it.  But infinitesimal as it is, when planted, this tiny seed grows into a tree.

So mustard seed moments may often seem quite mundane, but the circumstances derived from such moments are never mundane.  They have an explosive quality about them.  They shout!  That’s why those who know from personal experience call what the Bible has to teach…DYNAMITE.

Take the example of a tax collector named Matthew.  Who would have expected him to give up such a lucrative position and follow a poor Nazarene?  A rather futile move, some must have thought.  But the mustard seed moment was there waiting, and he became one of the chosen 12.

       And John was a fisherman making a good living doing what he liked, until he gave it all up to follow the Master.  I’m sure some of his friends probably commented, “He’s out there following some ne’er-do-well called Jesus.  I don’t believe it.”  But believe it, for that is what happened.  A mustard seed moment and he became one of the chosen 12.

And all the other 10 chosen to be Christ’s disciples had their mustard seed moments.  (Judas, of course, was a mustard seed moment gone bad.)

(to be continued)

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