People need Jesus. We need Jesus. We began this week with, who brought you to Jesus, and who are you bringing to Jesus. Those are important questions.
What is telling and even more important can be found in our church’s theme for 2022. HE>i… Literally it means God is bigger, is more important, is thought of more and is the focus of one’s life.
Further, that is a process. It doesn’t happen over night. We need to and can strive to see that God is more important than we are. We can seek Him so that He is more than anything else in our lives. Yet that is not the norm, it is not what the world expects or what our enemy wants.
I will make it a point for me and for my family, for our church and how I lead to make sure that God increases…
John 3:30 NLT
He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.
That is the theme verse as well. In fact the passage and story I shared on Sunday of people bringing their friend to Jesus epitomizes the reality that God is greater than myself.
These friends couldn’t do for this man what God could do for them. Maybe answer that question again. Who are you bringing to Jesus?
Answer that question with the understanding that people need Jesus more than they need anything else.
We aren’t working for the comfort of others. We aren’t striving for things that will make life easier. We aren’t focusing on what gives us pleasure or takes our mind off of reality. No, we are focusing on Jesus who is the gift from God.
Look deeper at this story that appears in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. This is not a parable. This is a historically factual happening where Jesus lived. Jesus had to be struggling with the busyness of ministry and all that was happening around Him.
But Jesus saw the faith of the people who brought their friend to Jesus. That fact led Jesus to respond to their faith, to heal their friend and to changes lives all around on that special day.
Luke 5:19 NIV
When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
Right in front of Jesus. Why in front of Him? Because He was greater than anything or anyone else. We will continue to bring people to God when we understand that no matter what God is greater than us!
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