Don’t Miss Your Miracle

How many times have I been kept from recognizing what

God was doing right in front of me? How many

times have I been kept from recognizing ordinary moments of

joy because I was waiting on things to be perfect.

How many times have I missed a miracle because all

I saw.

Was the mess?

How many times have I missed the opportunity to give

something because.

I was so centered on myself? How I feel, what

I need, what I didn't get?

God said, if you'll change the question and reverse the search,

maybe it's not about what is happening to you.

Maybe it's what I want to do through you.

They hung him.

He didn't dump down looking something could do.

They didn't recognize it. I didn't recognize it. I didn't

recognize that my kids were growing up fast, so I

didn't make the time. Didn't recognize I didn't recognize the

good things about the person I said I'd spend the

rest of my life with, So I started focusing on

the things about them that were mildly annoying, and eventually

it became an insurmountable resentment.

I didn't recognize.

I didn't recognize that the people I was hanging out

with were doing some things that were going to stick

with me for the rest.

Of my life.

And it became an addiction, even though it just started

out as an attraction. I didn't recognize and they were

kept what kept them from recognizing You can be kept

from recognizing the patterns that created your outcomes. You can

be kept from recognizing the behaviors that are leading you

to the destinations that you hate. You know, you hate

where you are, but you don't know how you got there.

And they were kept from recognizing him. And he was

right there with him like that uh dude who prayed

God would save him. And the hell ofter came and

he didn't take the helicopter, you know this story boat came.

He wouldn't get in the boat.

He drowned and he died and he said, God, ask

you to save me.

And God said that helicopter.

Was me, that boat was me, That rejection was me. Yeah,

even that pain. I let it happen because I wanted

to produce a.

Power in your life. And the only way I could

get it through and open your eyes.

And they're walking and here comes Jesus like a stalker.

Come on, it's kind of weird, right, He just shows

up in the middle of him Cleo and Missus Cleo,

and he asks him a question. Just sit, sit right

down beside him in church, walk up on the road,

and I love Jesus.

This is comical to me.

If you think the Bible is boring, I want to

challenge the fact that maybe it's.

You that is boring. And you huh, because watch this,

This is some funny stuff.

The author of life, who knows all things, who lays

bare the intents of every heart, who created Cleo and

Missus Cleo before the foundations of the earth for an

express purpose, by whom and through whom and for whom all.

Things are created.

That's Jesus, the Word made flesh full of grace and truth.

Walks up to Cleo and says, what y'all talking about?

Like he doesn't know?

And they stood still, their faces down. Everything in this

textings backwards to me.

Y'all.

He's going Tortimaeus away from Jerusalem.

That doesn't make sense.

He's talking to people that don't seem important. That doesn't

make sense. He just got up from the dead. If

you just got up from the dead, would you want

to hang around happy people? I would want to find

somebody who could celebrate. Come on, we're gonna pop something.

But Cleo is because it didn't go the way he thought.

It didn't end up the way he thought. Their faces

were downcast, and.

All of a sudden they stopped walking.

My Bible says they stood still, their faces downcast, and

they stop, and apparently Jesus stops with them, and they're sad,

and apparently he enters into their sadness, and they start

explaining to the one who created life how life was

supposed to turn out.

I love the Bible. I'm fascinated by this journey.

See, if you read the Bible like a magic rule book,

you will never fully understand the extent to which it

is meant to speak to your situation and guide your life.

I'm gonna show you how God is not scared to

walk right up in.

The details of your situation.

A bird falls out the sky and he counts it

and puts it on the ledger. And you think he

doesn't know about your loneliness, your tears, your heart break.

Your question.

You think he's intimidated by your skepticism. You think your

broken heart can chase him away. The Bible says, a

broken and a contrite heart He will not despise the

only heart he can't get into as the one that is.

Closed up through pride.

But if you open yourself, even with your face down cast,

And Cleo said, hey, man, are you this is Ironica?

The host of Heaven has come to earth. He died

and rose again and lived a perfect life.

And Cleo says, are you the only one visiting Jerusalem?

Remember he made it and they're treating the God of

the world like a guest. He is so funny to me.

How we get it twisted? How we get it out

of order?

We start we start thinking that God needs to consult

our blueprint of how our lives need to be built.

I can get this way as a pastor telling God

what he needs to do in my church. You get

this way as a parent what God needs to do

with your children.

Cleo launches out on this long excuse me.

Clopus launches out on this long, long speech telling Jesus

what happened to Jesus?

You find me.

God has a sense of humor because he lets him talk.

Cleophus gives him his speech and Jesus lets him finish.

Are you the only one who doesn't know what happened?

The one it happened to is standing there, and Cleo

wants to tell him what happened. See what that happened

was Jesus of Nazareth was a prophet, powerful in word,

indeed before God and all the people. They are standing

before the Great I Am, and they start with he was,

and there he is, and they're stuck in he was?

Are you missing what is? Because you're stuck in what was?

We hoped he was the one, but it took a

turn for the worst. The chief priests and our rulers

handed him over to be sentenced to death, and.

They crucified him. Jesus is nodding.

Verse twenty one, tell me all about it.

But we had hope.

And had I been Jesus, I'd have stopped you right there, because.

Hope that is seen is not hope at all. And

if you.

Had hoped, and don't hope anymore, what you had was

in real hope, because real.

Hope can't hold on et.

And on Friday, I had hope, hoped to be over

by now.

I had hoped the medicine would fix it. I had

hoped they'd say yes. I hoped they had asked.

I had hoped I had hoped.

Hope is standing in front of hopelessness. Christ and Cleo

and the Cross.

Clashed with Cleo's expectation, and now his experience has left

him downcast. We had hoped that he was the one.

I thought I'd be further along by now, thought I'll

be married by twenty six. I thought, I hope they

would be good to me and pay me back and

appreciate me after.

All I did for them. I had hoped he was

going to redeem me. Hoped he was going to heal me.

Could it be that we miss God because we look.

For him in the dreams, but he has found in

the disappointment. Their faces were downcast, their hopes were dashed,

and from their standpoint, the story was over. Since I'm

your tour guide on the seven mile journey, let me

give you a professional travel tip.

Don't judge the journey before it's over. I don't know

who that was even for. Don't judge the.

Journey of seven miles when you hadn't even been too yet.

See what the end will be, See what the end

will be. If you trust his promise, you have to

trust the path, and it might be one and it

might lead to a cross, and it might not feel good,

and it might be confusing.

But he is the god of the detour.

And it might not be spectacular, and he might not

prove himself to you with signs that you can see

or sense or feel. And it might not be a

goosebump that proves his presence.

He might show up in the details, you know, the

little things. It might be in the little ways.

He's right there on the road, he's walking with him.

They almost can't.

Recognize him because it's so common.

What's happening is so common. He looks like just another guy.

They are standing next the resurrection and they don't recognize it.

And it's right there.

He's right there.

He is here now, he is, he was, he is.

To come and he's with you.

De moment.

Hopefully was the one.

And what is more, Cleo says, to make matters worse,

look at twenty one, it's the third day.

It's funny, Yellow know that's funny. I'm sorry.

I'm just a nerdy little pastor.

I get kicks out of weird stuff. It's the third day.

The whole time he was on the.

Earth, he said this is gonna go bad on Friday,

But come Sunday. Don't look for me in the tomb

they buried men. I'm dead, out out of here.

And what they thought was the dead end was really

just the beginning.

You want to see him in three D.

Look for him in the detours.

You want to see him in three D.

Not this flat little coloring book Jesus with the lamb

on his lap.

But the living risen Son of God. I know who's

off feet things.

Still sit and stand and saw seated at the right.

Hand of God. You want to see him like that.

Don't look for him in just the dramatic.

Look for him in.

The details, that little little thing that God has been

doing in your life.

You want to see the Son of God. You want

to see Jesus. How many of you want to see him?

How many of you want to see God active in

your life?

I mean, with the eyes of your heart to know him.

He can be found at the dead ends when you

used to hope and now it's hard to hope. That's

where he meets you on your Amaeis road.

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