Friday, December 4, 2009

Warning....NOT my Typical Post

Dear Brothers:

This is not going to be my typical uplifting motivating post, so sit down and get ready.

Today my friend David was found dead in a hotel room. He leaves behind a wife and triplets. God blessed him with three beautiful children and now at 9 years old they are to grow up with out a father. David has been battling drug and alcohol addictions for the past year.

My heart is broken for his children especially after what we have been learning about the importance of a father. When I first heard I was overwhelmed with grief and guilt… I had spoken to his wife a week prior and learned that she had thrown him out again because he was drinking again. I took down his phone number and had it on my desk to call him.

I had reached out to another fiend the following day to ask about a recovery house and my friend told me that unless he was ready to get help it would not work and David had been in and out of recovery homes for the past 6 months and kept relapsing and not going to his meetings.

David was one of the first people that I shared my testimony with and did little things like gave him the book the shack and the you have what it takes book from John Elderage. Many times I invited him to wildmen but he never came.

The enemy had me feeling guilty that I did not do enough, maybe that is true; would my have making a phone call to him last week change what happened?????????? What troubles me the most is that I do not know if his name is in the Lambs Book of Life and someday am I going to have to answer to him “Why did you not tell me”

Today I woke up again feeling that I could have done more, there is a lesson for me here. In my inbox today was this from Max Lucida please read it?


God Does Big Things with Small Deeds
by Max Lucado
"Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin" (Zech. 4:10 NLT).

Begin. Just begin! What seems small to you might be huge to someone else. Just ask Bohn Fawkes. During World War II, he piloted a B-17. On one mission he sustained flak from Nazi antiaircraft guns. Even though his gas tanks were hit, the plane did not explode, and Fawkes was able to land the plane.

On the morning following the raid, Fawkes asked his crew chief for the German shell. He wanted to keep a souvenir of his incredible good fortune. The crew chief explained that not just one but eleven shells had been found in the gas tanks, none of which had exploded.

Technicians opened the missiles and found them void of explosive charge. They were clean and harmless and with one exception, empty. The exception contained a carefully rolled piece of paper. On it a message had been scrawled in the Czech language. Translated, the note read: "This is all we can do for you now."
A courageous assembly-line worker was disarming bombs and scribbled the note. He couldn't end the war, but he could save one plane. He couldn't do everything, but he could do something. So he did it.

God does big things with small deeds.
Against a towering giant, a brook pebble seems futile. But God used it to topple Goliath. Compared to the tithes of the wealthy, a widow's coins seem puny. But Jesus used them to inspire us. And in contrast with sophisticated priests and powerful Roman rulers, a cross-suspended carpenter seemed nothing but a waste of life. Few Jewish leaders mourned his death. Only a handful of friends buried his body. The people turned their attention back to the temple. Why not?

What power does a buried rabbi have? We know the answer. Mustard-seed and leaven-lump power. Power to tear away death rags and push away death rocks. Power to change history. In the hands of God, small seeds grow into sheltering trees. Tiny leaven expands into nourishing loaves.

Small deeds can change the world. Sow the mustard seed. Bury the leaven lump. Make the call.
Write the check. Organize the committee.
Moses had a staff.
David had a sling.
Samson had a jawbone.
Rahab had a string.
Mary had some ointment.
Aaron had a rod.
Dorcas had a needle.
All were used by God.
What do you have?

God inhabits the tiny seed, empowers the tiny deed. He cures the common life by giving no common life, by offering no common gifts. Don't discount the smallness of your deeds.

Our Deeds do have power and I want to encourage all of you to more….. But most importantly if you are lead to help someone trust the Holy Spirit and do it. I think that what I am learning from this is that we have a short time on this planet and we will spend eternity in Heaven, make the most of your time with your family, friends, and others who do not know Jesus. Our charge is to go spread the good news.

My Message is simple; time is not on our side……

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