There is a story of the father of a union soldier who was desperately trying to get to Abraham Lincoln to have his last child pulled from the war.  He had lost several sons and was desperate not to lose his last boy in the bloody civil war.

 

He went to the white house to see if he could arrange a meeting with the president.  As you might imagine, he could not get to Abraham Lincoln to talk to him.

 

Despondent, he found a park bench and sat down to reflect.  A young boy came and sat by him and questioned him about why he looked so sad.  The boy would not relent in finding out what was wrong, so the man told the boy his story just to appease him.  After sharing his story, the man had hoped the boy would leave him to his misery….but the boy knew something the man did not.  “Come with me”, the boy said, and lead the man into the back door of the White House and up to a hallway where he had him wait.  Minutes later, the man was talking to the boy’s father:  Abraham Lincoln.

 

Sometimes the best way to get to a father is through his son.

 

And that is where we begin today……in the second part of Who What Where When Why…

 

When we know Who we are….that we are God’s priceless image, his work of art, and that we were created for purpose, we are on our way to doing great things.

 

And when we realize what we are …. we can go even further.

 

What Are You?

 

Galatians 4  7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.

 

You are a son…a daughter…of the King.

 

We don’t have to sit outside the White House and wait for a miracle to access the King.  We don’t have to go through a priest.  We are more than welcome to call Him Daddy, yes Daddy, and talk to Him.  His Son not only “sat on the bench and gave us access to Him”, He made a spectacle of the enemy while doing it.

 

This is not fairy tale…it is our reality as followers of the King.  We do not have to live in what we don’t have.   We can begin to live in what we do have.  We can begin to ask the Lord to act on our behalf and to change the hearts of people.

 

When people kneel for during the Star Spangled Banner it burdens me.  It burdens me for the veterans who fought and gave us freedom.  It hurts my heart to see them have to stand and watch others not enjoying the freedom that they gave their lives to defend…….But it also burdens me for the people who are fighting their way just to find peace.  It burdens me for the single mom.  It burdens me for the broken families and broken people all over the world.

 

The answer to all of these issues is, in fact, to kneel.  It is to kneel down and cry out to the only One who can truly do something about it…..the Living God.

 

The God who has made us sons…..The God who has made us daughters…..the God who continually and without hesitation….restores hope.

 

When someone is without hope….they are a slave.  They can’t see the end from the beginning and they can’t see a future.

 

But God has a future.  He has a plan for us to walk into freedom.  And Paul wanted that freedom so badly to be free that he went to prison to do it.

 

When my son was born he became gravely ill….and before we knew it he was in ICU at Children’s Hospital in Denver.  Our family dropped everything and poured out all of our energy into seeing him back to health.  Not just my immediate family—-my wife’s parents, my parents, our best friends, our family friends, the people I worked with, …. Many people stopped and pitched in….

 

When a child is sick ….. his or her parents will do anything to make them well.

 

And that……is the story of the Gospel.

 

Go be a son.  Go be a daughter.

The King has given you all that you need to have hope and peace and love.

Our Daddy loves us so much that He gave His son that we might be free.

 

In The Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J