Me:  Why are you so mad!

Prodigal:  That guy just threatened me.

Me:  It’s ok.

Prodigal:  It’s not ok.  I’ll hit him so hard and so fast he’ll think his surrounded.

Me:  I just going to pray because the spirit can help.

 

 

This is from the book The God Who Hung on the Cross by Dois Rosser Jr. and Ellen Vaughn

 

As my friend Lee Earl has put it, when Jesus was on this earth, He could be measured.  You could measure how tall He was, how big His feet, His hat size.  Then “one day Jesus went airborne-He went from being something measurable to something immeasurable.”  It’s only in eternity that we will have any sure sense of what He is doing through us down here.

Lee says, “We have to become comfortable with what we can know and what we can measure, in terms of ministry results and accountability,….and we have to become comfortable with what we don’t know and cannot measure.”

Too much focus on measurements and numbers can also tempt us toward “if, then” formulas regarding God’s will:  if we do X, then He’ll do Y. If we give $100, then He’ll bring 11.25 souls to Himself.  If some tragedy occurs, then we’ll soon see how God caused “all things to work together for good” because of it.

But God is God–too big for our formulas, His purpose too high to be boxed by our limited human perspective.

 

 

Proverbs 22:2

The rich and poor meet together:  the LORD is the maker of them all.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org