Jesus gave it all.

 

He didn’t give half of His life…or half of His heart…or half of His forgiveness.

 

And think about what His gift would mean if we didn’t receive it in its fullness:

What if we didn’t have FULL eternal life?

Or FULL forgiveness for our sins?

Or FULL entrance into His Kingdom as a son?

 

The Lord put on my heart to read Hosea this week.

 

It is the story of unfaithfulness.

 

It is the story of a wife who cannot remain faithful to a loving husband.

 

It is OUR story.

 

Hosea 2  23 ….. I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one. ‘I will say to those called ‘Not my people,’ ‘You are my people’; and they will say, ‘You are my God.’ ”

 

Wow.  To not understand this is to not understand the fullness of the gospel.

 

I sometimes look at my life and say:  I am not only not faithful with a little……I Am Unfaithful With EVERYTHING!  I haven’t measured up!  I haven’t even scratched the surface of what He has called me to be…or to do…or in how He has shown me to live.

 

But I think this is why Jesus encourages us to have faith the size of a mustard seed.

 

You see……..just a little bit of faith can lead to so much life.  He can take just a little bit of faithfulness and put the FULL into it.

 

2000 years ago Jesus knew of our wishy-washy, half-in, lackadaisical and mediocre approach to His gospel…..

 

And yet He still stayed up on that cross and said:

 

It Is Paid In Full.

 

So don’t respond to this today by trying to do EVERYTHING.

 

Respond to it by doing SOMETHING.   And do something that involves Him putting FULLNESS over you…..because you doing everything by yourself will never even come close to Him putting His FULLNESS over you doing a little.

Watch what He can do with your mustard seed.

 

Because He can bring the FULL to your half and make it Kingdom.

 

This only works with Jesus…….and it is, after all, a miracle as great as the resurrection itself.

 

Father, I have not been faithful with little

I have been unfaithful with much

But today….I go the other way

I change my mindset and my outlook

And I ask you to make me faithful in small things

And I ask that you fill me with life

And hope

And peace

And vision

And faith

For You, and You alone, hold the keys to eternal life

 

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J