Wednesday, February 10th, ‘10

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START WHERE YOU ARE OR

YOU WILL STAY WHERE YOU ARE

“This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee…” (John 2:11)

 

You can get to anywhere on earth from where you are right now. I’ve often preached that the journey starts with a look – “Look from the place where you are northward, southward, eastward and westward” (Gen 13:14). Vision is omni-directional. And which direction you proceed in is totally up to you. Don’t just “pick” a road, “PICK” a road. Know what you want. But that offer to Abraham doesn’t tell the whole story. You can “look” from the place where you are all day, but if you don’t take a first step, how far will you have journeyed by the end of the day? I see, you’re stuck. If you don’t start where you are you will stay where you are.

 

Some people don’t have a starter, others don’t have any brakes. The latter is more prone to having a wreck but at least that person experiences adventure. Jesus began His miracle ministry at the wedding in Cana. The disciples “began” in the Upper Room (Acts 2:4). As to creation, “In the beginning was the word…” (John 1:1) The focus is the finish-line but that’s immaterial without a starting-gate. Feet have to hit the floor. You at least have to get up and make a pot of coffee. Step two comes when it is time for step two but for now the person must make an initial investment. The Irish proverb says you will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind. I’m good at that, like Joseph who “dreamed a dream and told it to his brethren”. Of course, if you tell what you intend to do then never do, you can expect to be marginalized.

 

Someone suggested that you don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great. That is sound. Before Jesus turned the water into wine He said to Mary, “Woman…my hour has not yet come” (John 2:4). That implies He might have waited awhile longer before “starting”. But need and opportunity forced His cards. Jesus took a step of faith and said, “Fill the water-pots with water”. He then was out on a limb. Either He works the water to wine miracle or else He settles back to the wishful thinking stage. That is where fear lurks. Inaction is the outflow, should I say non-flow, of indecision. By tabling a measure we don’t have to deal with it until next month’s meeting (by which time it has been forgotten).

 

The key to walking on water is lifting one leg over the side of the boat then putting your weight on it. Actually, it says of Peter, that when he “was come down out of the boat, he walked on the water…” (Mat 14:29) That’s physics. He had to leave the one platform to enter the other. You can’t walk on water and sit on boat both at the same time. So start. You may stop at any time. That’s your discretion. The third alternative to start and stop is stay and that is the one option you must refuse. Because to stay is to stagnate and to stagnate is to be stuck and to be stuck is to eventually stink.