“Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” – John 14:12
A friend of mine recently made a $10 bet with this daughter that he could do 10 somersaults in a row and be able to walk in a straight line. He lost, and the (humiliating) results were posted on Facebook that very day.
As “he was taking his medicine” from his friends and family at having lost the bet, he mentioned the fact that his daughter had shown her old man up by doing the 10 somersaults and getting up and walking in a straight line with no trouble at all. This prompted me to make a comment to “never bet against your kids”.
The moment I sent my comment off, though, something hit me. God doesn’t bet against His “kids” either. In fact, Jesus tells us in the passage quoted at the top of this post that we’ll do even greater things than He did while he was here on earth.
Moreover, as I processed this truth a little more, I realized that not only does God not bet against us, but he stacks the deck in our favor by promising to be with us and empowering us with His Holy Spirit to do his will on earth.
Wow.
And what about the sheer audacity of my friend’s daughter to not only confidently declare that she could do what he could not, but to put $10 up that she could? If that isn’t a good look at what our faith is supposed to look like, I don’t know what is!
How much more impactful would we be to those around us is we realized these simple truths? What good could we do? What things do we fear could be cast away because we’re confident that God’s working in and through us? How much more would we believe in ourselves because of what HE believes about us? I’ll “bet” the results would be life changing…