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CAN GOD SMILE? CAN GOD CRY?
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Matthew 13:31-32
Another parable he put before them, saying,
The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed
which a man took and sowed in his field;
it is the smallest of all seeds,
but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree,
so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.
Have you unknowingly led someone to Christ? You might well have done that; planted some tiny mustard seed thought when you were not aware you were doing it.
Perhaps you verbally expressed your faith, or with a deed that was a visual shout that let those around you know that you are a Christian. It was the right moment or the right place and it changed their life. Their soul was ripe. Their need was great and it happened.
That word or that deed was like a tiny mustard seed and it grew and grew and grew. In fact, it changed their lives to such a degree that if you knew what you had done, it would have left you speechless.
Let me tell you one of my favorite stories.
A young teenager was walking toward his church in a building snowstorm but he never made it there. As the storm increased in intensity he realized he would do well just to make it to a tiny chapel that was along the way.
And so it was that he joined a very small group of Methodists, who were also affected by the storm - their own preacher had been snowed in. Finding themselves preacher-less, a layman volunteered to speak in his place.
He certainly hadn’t come prepared for such a happening, but several weeks earlier he had heard a sermon that he could not get out of his mind and decided to share it.
So as best he could, he repeated it to the gathered group which included the teenager. Time and time again the layman quoted the words from Isaiah, “…look unto me and be saved, all ends of the earth.”
From that impromptu sermon, a tiny mustard seed, planted in the heart of a teenage boy during a most unlikely occasion, grew into a new and powerful faith.
It wasn’t that he had not believed before, but what he experienced was such a soul deep moment that when he left the church, he was never the same again.
His name? Charles Haddon Spurgeon, one of the greatest evangelists the
church has ever known…who shook England for God and won thousands to Christ.
And who did God speak through? A layman who probably thought, Someone must speak for the Lord today, so it might as well be me…and so he stepped forward and basically said, “I will do it.”
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THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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This book is more than just a march down memory lane. It is certainly not a search-and-destroy mission as are some historical efforts. It is really a questing for an understanding of the man able to write, “He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.” “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” “It is the duty of all nations as well as of men to owe their dependence upon the over ruling power of God.”1 “With malice toward none; with charity toward all; right, as God gives us to see the right…”2
When a president continues to think and speak this way, often commenting on sin and mercy more like a preacher than a politician it is worth taking a second look. When he called out for, “with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right,” 2 he did not just show humility. Rather he asked for a national self-examination and that God might be at the center of such evaluation.
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