After watching TV all day, Max von Sydow’s character in Woody Allen’s movie “Hannah and Her Sisters” remarked, “If Jesus came back and saw what’s going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.”
I think if he came back he’d fall asleep. So much of what is done in Jesus’ name is unexciting, monotonous, and lackluster. We’ve gotten good at operating in the safe zones. We’ve been lulled into a medium setting. We are invisibly beige.
We question the doctrinal veracity of anyone contending for something different. We are cynical of anything different or outside the norm. We have made a pulpit out of being right and a throne out of being homogenous.
We’re so good we’re boring!
There have been moments when you’ve pushed against the stream of mediocrity, but real life and those living it quickly set you back in your place. Now a lot of the push in you is gone. You’re growing accustomed to really small things, and have even learned to act impressed with them.
It’s the small things that matter most brother! (heard in foyer)
But deep inside of you there is a sense that you were created for greater things. You sense the huge gap between what you see and what God’s word says. Instinctively you know there should be more.
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.” (John 14:12)
More. Bigger. Greater. Sounds like work, huh? NO! That’s the beauty of what Jesus is saying here. Just believe. That’s it, and that’s everything! You don’t have to do anything (that’s legalism!). You don’t have to prove anything (that’s religion!).
Your dreams, visions, hopes, aspirations are not out there somewhere, they’re right inside you because God lives in you. You don’t have to understand everything, you just have to be willing to make yourself available to the amazing things God has already prepared for you! They’re good, and far from boring.
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