Greater things are yet to come
Greater things are still to be done in this city.
Great line from a great song.
In fact a song that has had a magnitudal effect on me this last couple of years.
Looking at my life closely this morning I ask the question are you truly the God of this city, the city that is my life?
And for some reason a wave of excitement rises up within me.
I think where I've come from, to where I am now.
I grew up in a hard poor urban inner City jungle just a stones throw over the river Mersey from Liverpool City Centre. Seven of us crammed into a small terrace, with no bathroom just an outside toilet.
We had nothing.
I fought my way through a tough school.
I came through unscathed from the life that comes growing up in traditional Salvation Army.
I learned so much from my years working in the ultra tense business of open heart surgery.
Here I am a Salvation Army officer.
I often think how did that happen?
So this morning I ask myself what next?
That's when those words dropped into my head.
Greater things are yet to come, greater things are still to be done.
I was thinking all this stuff on my morning walk by the river Wear in Durham city centre this morning. I love that time. It helps me to get my perspective together before I work. As I reflected I was thinking of those areas of my life that still need cleaning up. Sometimes they seem so difficult to do anything about.
I let that thought form the content of my prayer this morning. "Lord, help me to clean up those things that need cleaning up."
As I prayed that prayer I came across a window cleaner at work. He was doing an awkward job. He was having to clean the Riverside windows of a city restaurant (See picture below). He was balancing on a big pipe, one slip and he was going in the river, a fast flowing river that has claimed a few lives lately.
He was taking a big risk.
Just to clean up the restaurant windows.
I thought to myself how that was an amazing lesson for me.
How do I clean up those areas of my life that need cleaning up?
Those stubborn and awkward things?
It seems to me I need to take a few risks.
To get to those awkward places.
I need to ignore the danger.
Go out on a limb.
Work hard.
To keep working towards holiness.
And the best thing is.
Nothing is insurmountable.
Everything is capable of cleanliness.
And always there are greater things.
I love it when Joyce Meyer says, "I'm not where I want to be, but thank God I'm not where I used to be."
I think that's my thinking today.
Greater things are yet to come, greater things are still to be done.
Bless you in your journey guys.
Gaz
