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"WHOSE JOB IS IT?"
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Scripture: John 2:5 "Whatsoever He says to you, do it."
Obedience to these words brought about a miracle in Cana of
Galilee. It was a crucial time at a marriage feast when the wine
had run out. Mary approached her son, Jesus, for help and then
instructed the servants to do whatever He said. The servants
obeyed Jesus by filling the water pots with water, and Jesus then
turned the water into wine. This great miracle shows us several
things. First, Jesus is there to help us in the time of
crises. Second, His miracle power rises above the natural laws
and beyond our physical abilities. Finally, the Lord expects us
to do our part regardless of how absurd it may seem.
How many miracles have we missed because God told us to do something
and we failed to respond? We may have been called to minister to
someone needing a financial miracle, deliverance, or healing.
There was such a great need and we felt that we had so little to offer,
so we just did nothing at all. Yet, many times Jesus used the
very small, simple, and insignificant things to bring about
miracles. He used a fish in Matthew 17:27 to bring finances to
Peter so that taxes could be paid. What would have happened if
Peter refused to go to the sea and fish as the Lord had told him to
do? And what about the boy who responded by giving his meager
five loaves and two fish, which Jesus blessed and multiplied in order
to feed five thousand men, besides the women and children?
There is a song that says, "Little is much if God is in it." How
true these words are. We hold the miracles and blessings of God
in our hands by our obedience or we withhold the miracles and blessings
of God through our disobedience. If we want to be a blessing to
others, we must obey God's slightest command. We must not wait
for Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody to take care of the matter
as illustrated in the story below.
Who's Job Is It?
(Copied – Author Unknown)
There was an important job to be done.
And Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it.
But Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody
When Nobody did what Anybody could have done. ++
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