Staying off the exit ramps-part 5

       God has given you good health and the energy and ability to serve him out there where the “rubber hits the pavement.”  However, learn early on that you are human.  You are finite. Your own human power is limited! Name yourself, Mikroteros Dunamis, Little Strength. Remember that it is God who has unlimited power. He, who is true and just , is the God of big miraculous power. The miraculous power of the apostles to witness as recorded in Acts 4:33, was not their own power, but it was the dunamis given to them by the Holy Spirit. Remember, musicians, “When we reach the end of our hoarded resources, when our strength has failed ere the day is half done, He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again.
       This little illustration I leave with you today.   A few years ago, I was mowing the lawn and my daughter Deanna brought David and Sarah’s oldest son out to ride the mower with me. He sat down between by legs and we made a round or two.  Then I placed one of his little hands on the steering wheel, then the other little chubby hand on the wheel.  Next, I placed my hands over his and we made a round or two.  Then I took one of my hands off, then the other, and he was steering the mower. Every now and then, he would get a little off course and my hands were instantly right there to bring the mower back on course. 

       I submit to you that God has declared in verse twelve of the third chapter of the Revelation, “him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God.”  Caiden, the little boy who had marched in the back door the day before, looked up at me and said, “Grandpa, I will help you” - although his strength was small, he was willing to help me.

        If you are willing, if you will now look up at Jesus and say, “I will help you,” even though your strength is small, God will empower you to be his witnesses in “Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth.”  God will be right there in the hour of trial and trouble.  On the authority of God’s “true truth” he promises, “I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God!  And I will write upon him my new name.” Christian musicians stay out there in God’s harvest field.  God declares in Vs. 11, “Behold, I come quickly, hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.”  May God bless you and keep you and empower this very morning to do his work.