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Did you ever see that movie As Good as it Gets?
The title scene where Jack Nicholson’s character who suffers from OCD goes to the psychiatrist who can’t help him. He walks back into the waiting room and sees the other people waiting to see the doctor. They all have hopeless looks on their faces.
He looks around the room at them and in a defeated voice asks “what if this is good as it gets?”
I have found myself asking God a similar question in the last day or two.
You see over the last 12 months I have become desperate for my faith to be something more profound and effective than just making me feel good. I really want to see some of the power that is promised in the bible become a reality in my life and more importantly, in the lives of those around me.
Now, the rubber has hit the road. Now, when it needs to count, the absence of any power in my faith is completely exposed.
Those things that the bible says that I should be able to do, seem to be so far from my reach.
So, I can only hope that my walk with God is off target because the alternative is unthinkable. That alternative of course being “what if this is good as it gets?”
Well, despite what I see (or don’t see as the case may be), I don’t believe that this is the case. I don’t believe that a Christianity that is for all intents and purposes, powerless is what God has designed for us.
But when we don’t see results, then we get angry at God. Why is he letting this thing happen? Where is he? Why is he not doing anything?
Well friends, I reckon I have found the answer to that one. He has done something. He sent his Son to die on a cross (you may have read about it somewhere).
That leaves the ball squarely in our court. Quite simply, the onus is on us as believers.
We have been given the authority and power to act in Jesus name. And, we have been left the Holy Spirit in order to see that power realised in people’s lives.
Rather than continually asking Jesus to step in and do it for us, let’s actually use the authority he has given us (check out Matthew 10:1) and step out and do it.
This requires a change of thinking and a serious prayer life devoted to spending time with God and growing our relationship with him (as opposed to asking him to make it all better).
But I can tell you, unless we commit to doing this then this is as good as it gets.
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