I Can Do It!

Pastor Jennifer gave a powerful message on Sunday with an equally powerful illustration. You should listen to it! "I can do it," Jesus says to us. "I can repair the holes in your life. I can rebuild what has been destroyed. I can fill in the gaping holes in your life. I can do it."

One of my seminary professors, the late David Seamands (missionary to India, Pastor and Counselor), said many things that have stuck with me. One applies here: "We already know what we have to do, what we should do and what we ought to do. Tell people what they can do in Jesus." I thought about that phrase on Sunday and applied it to the theme: Tell people what Jesus can do in their lives. He is the God of the impossible. The things we couldn't dream of being reality can be in Him.

What I heard God say through Jennifer (one of several things) was that it sometimes takes a disaster (or something that looks like a disaster) to help us understand the incredible God we serve. He needs impossible looking situations to show that nothing is impossible. Could that be part of what James is thinking about when he writes: "1:2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4 Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."

God seems to say in Scripture trials serve two things : 1) to grow us - our faith, our character; 2) to bring glory to God. But when we're looking at a hole in our lives; when we're gazing through a hole that shouldn't be there; when we're looking at an impossible circumstance it's all about God's work in us and through us.

Good things to think about Pastor Jennifer. Thanks for sharing from your story so we could make it God's story in us.