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Hold on!

As I considered my Easter Sunday morning sermon, the words of this children’s song came to mind:

Nothing’s too big, big, big for his power
Nothing’s too little, little for his care
Nothing’s too big, big, big for his power
Nothing’s too idly, widdly for his care
Nothing’s too big, big, big for his power
Nothing’s too incy-wincy for his care
Nothing’s too big, big, big for his power
Nothing’s too teeny-weeny for his care

He is God of the big, God of the little
God of the stuff somewhere in the middle
The King of moving mountains
Loves you more than you will ever know

Nothing’s too big, nothing’s too small
Nothing’s too much, he cares for it all

By Doug Horley

The resurrection is certainly ‘big, big, big’ and is the ultimate and greatest expression of God’s power here on earth, perhaps with the exception of creation itself.  We have just reflected and celebrated in our churches this awesome, mind blowing, extreme, off the scale amazing, inexplicable event of Jesus rising from the dead.  It leaves you lost for words, gob smacked, totes emoj….

But what of today, tomorrow, next week, next month?  Is this resurrection Jesus evident in the little, the teeny weeny?  Is this resurrection Jesus in the mundane, routine and mediocre?  Is this resurrection Jesus in the downright, hard, horrible and messy?  Our intellectual response will I am sure be, yes of course.  But what of our actual response or our even emotional response?

Perhaps our need for a result takes over before allowing Jesus to take over?

Perhaps our knee-jerk emotions roll out before we have checked in with Jesus?

Perhaps our shock at what is seen or said stops us from seeing Jesus at all.

As I approach stepping down from this role and entering something called retirement, I do look back with such thankfulness for the faithfulness and power of the resurrection Jesus and the fact that: He is God of the big, God of the little, God of the stuff somewhere in the middle, The King of moving mountains and He loves me more than I will ever know.  In hindsight the vision in the rear-view mirror is clear that Jesus was there in the minutiae, the emails, the mundane, the messy, the fun and the big stuff, perhaps I wish I had had a better focus at the time.

So hold on to the sublime, dazzling, colossal, fabulous, glorious heavenly resurrection power and let it infuse your every day as well as your vision and perception of that day. For as the angel said to Mary before Jesus was even born: For nothing will be impossible with God. Luke 1:37

The thought this week was written by Beth Powney EBA Regional Minister

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