Little Leaders, Part 3

Things are ok today, men and women because our God is in the heavens and he does whatever he wants to do. Now I don’t want to push anybody’s theological hot buttons here today when I say that. I don’t want to get into a debate here. I’m here. I serve in ministry everyday. And John was hard at work: he was proclaiming, he was baptizing, he was making sure that people were ready when Jesus came. He was busy at work. He wasn’t sitting back taking it easy in some big barcalounger easy chair somewhere saying, “Well, God is big and I am small so ‘Go, God!’” He was at work.

But I’ve got news for you today, everything is good in the universe: I know that the media wants us to believe contrary to that and current events sometimes fly in the face of that reality. All is well in the universe because our God, I am, is in the heavens and everything is under his command. Everything is going to his appointed conclusion. He is concluding the story. He is calling the shots. He is going to sound the trumpet. He’s going to build the church. He’s going to make sure that his mission is accomplished and succeeds and he’s going to do it with or without you and me. Oh my goodness! God couldn’t possibly do it without us! Just bail out and watch him!

He’s going to do it and that doesn’t mean barcalounger time. All right! Party’s on! That’s what I needed to hear, Lon, that’s what I came for! I’m just going to head home now and head out on a permanent vacation. I am not and I am done! No, that’s not the message. The message is, I can rest in my soul because it is not up to me. It can never be up to someone named “I am not”. It has to all bank on someone named I am who I am.