We Can

We can do anything we want. We merely have to really want to do it.
The driver, the force behind great things being done is not money, but it is the spirit and faith of the person or persons pushing their vision.
Too often, because there is a lack of sufficient funds (and there is always a lack of sufficient funds) people fold their arms and purse their lips and say “we cannot do it,” or “it can’t be done.”
What about God? What about the fact that we say all the time that we can do all things through Christ? Whatever all we do not have, we have God.
If we do not make God the center of all we do, then we “do religion” in vain. God desires us to try Him/Her, and to taste and see that God is good. If we never try God, we never taste God and God’s goodness.
It seems, though, that the best way to taste God’s goodness is to focus on others, not on ourselves. It seems that God wants to show us “the power of one, plus God.” One person, on fire, undeterred, unafraid, and steadfast about “doing good and using God,” can make God show up and show out.
We know that a vocal minority can persuade a silent majority that impossible-sounding things are beyond the scope of God. Really? This God, who made the world and everything in it? Can that truly be the case? Remember the story of Joshua and Caleb, and the 10 other spies sent to scope out the Promised Land? Ten spies came back with a negative report, and were able to sway the majority of the Israelites that they could not get into the land.
Only Joshua and Caleb said that because of God, “we can surely enter this land.”
The majority of Israelites believed the negative report and in fact did not see the Promised Land.
That is not the God I know. This God is a “rewarder of those who seek Him.”
This economy is bad, but God IS. God is …good, able, merciful, knowing … God IS.
As we move to raise the money for our parking lot, I hope we keep that thought in front of us and in the center of all we do. We don’t have the money (now), but we have God, always. God IS.
Let the redeemed say so…and move on it.
Pastor Smith