We have to be careful that we not get distracted from the Red Sea moments of God going on about us day after day. Marvel and mystery move among us like air waves. Wonder and awe are vital mainstays of the church today; so much so we can't begin to notice but only a small part of them.
Are you aware of blood cells oxygenating while corpuscles expand or contract? Do you sense the cleansing power of atoms and molecules racing through your body and equilibrium partners with muscle tissue; all assisting in making your maneuvers for lunch schedules more accommodating? I didn't think so.
So it is in the body of Christ. Much is going on while we see a few of the external moments. By faith we believe the massive cooperation of body elements which pull off amazing works of wonder.
Sunday morning our David Combs (new Community Outreach Minister) did his solo flight as he preached his first sermon since being added to our staff. Yahoo! What a terrific...stupendous...magnificent message he delivered! It was thrilling.
All he did was tell about God working in so many people at Memorial. He filled his delivery with testimony of God working in so many places in so many people with so many servants. The good news is that when he got done he had only begun to tell about our God among us.
That is precisely the way it is where you live. You think you see what's going on because you can add the number attending or count the dollars in the plate. But oh how far that misses the mark.
The casual greetings of acceptance, the dollars handed to the needy day after day, the deliveries of furniture to others, the food distributed...hasn't even approached the notes written and the phone calls made....hasn't begun to take into the consideration the laundry done for others and the rides to the doctors...hasn't yet noticed the time spent by hundreds in prayer who've never met one another...and on and on the stories go of God working.
Good news is all around us....God is alive, active, and sharp as ever! Take it in....and then rejoice a lot!
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