You can get coffee anywhere in the city. It’s pretty hard to go anywhere without passing a Starbucks. You can get coffee at 7-11, a Mc Café at Mickie-d’s, Kona that once could only be had at specialty roasters, can now be had at any hole in the wall. Whether you go for your morning Joe or a tiny thimble full of cappuccino, there is nothing like a good cup of coffee. Nothing ruins a good cup faster than reaching across the diner counter, or pulling a carton out of the fridge before you realize the cream you just poured into your cup has gone bad.
Anything that is left long enough will start to sour and over time will become unusable. If we were not to use our legs, the muscles will start to shrink and over time will cease to function. If we do not exercise our faith, it will shrink. We can get to the point where we don’t see God working in our lives, after a while we can get to the point where we don’t see the blessings anymore. We act as if there is some kind of point system with God. When we get to that magic number, we get to quit, this far and no more. We get to a certain age where we think that we have done everything that we were supposed to do. Our faith was never supposed to have an expiration date.
If you are living and breathing God has a plan for you. It is us who puts restrictions on how God gets to use us or work through us. Jeremiah was called to be a prophet of the people of God. All he had to do was to repeat everything that God told him to speak, but Jeremiah told God that God was wrong and that he was too young to be of any use to God. If Samuel had looked through the eyes of man, instead of God’s eyes, David would have been left in the fields tending the flocks. He did not look like the kind of King that the people expected. He did not even look like a King that they would have chosen for themselves.
Moses thought that his time for serving God was long gone, dead and buried along with the Egyptian that he had slain. It was forty years later before God was ready to use him to bring Israel out of Egypt. Moses would later take the people to the very brink of the promised-land. The night before they were to take the land they sent spies into the land to check it out. God had said that the land was theirs, all they had to do was to go in and take it, and instead the people believed not God but the spies who told them it could not be done.
For forty years the people wandered the wilderness, they trailed behind them the bleached bones of those who would rather listen to men than to God. God raised a generation that would have the faith to follow Him. Forty years later when Joshua got them to the edge of the river Jordan, he would not listen to any voice other than the one that said the land is yours. They crossed that mighty river on dry land. Joshua told the people that God had given them everything that the eye could see from mountain to sea. There were still those who said,” There might be Giants.” Caleb at the age of 78 came forward and said,” There might be Giants, but God said go.” “There might be Giants, but give me the Mountain.” “There might be Giants for He makes Young out of the Old.”
If you still draw a breath, God is not through with you. If you still draw breath, God still has a plan for you. We were never intended to sit, soak, and sour. Most of us think , I have done enough, I can sit and be fed; but what we find is that we have nothing to show for it but day old Manna. God has given us enough for today and if he has given you more than you need, it is up to you to pass on the rest. Look around you, there are plenty of ways that you can serve. Jesus tells us that even if we give someone a cup of cool water in His name we show our love for Him.
There are plenty of people who need to hear from God. There are widows and orphans who we are responsible for. There are prisoners who need to be visited and not all of them are in jail, some are in the prison of failing bodies. We are responsible to the least of these. We have a job to do, but we hold to our excuses, I’m too young, God couldn’t possibly use me, I’ve failed God, and it’s too late for me. We tell ourselves, “There might be Giants,” God still says “Go.”
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