GIVE ME NOTHING

SOME OF THE MOST PROFOUNDLY POWERFUL MANIFESTATIONS OF CHRIST'S WONDERS, AND AWESOME MIRACLES,WAS NOT AMONGST THE "ECCLESIATIA:, OR EVEN WHEN HE WAS PUT ON DISPLAY AND DEMANDED TO PERFORM BY THE RELIGIOUS WONDERS OF HIS TIME. THE TRUTH BE TOLD, HE DIDN'T EVEN USE "WONDERFUL", OR "MAGNFICENT" BACKDROPS, OR SUBSTANCE FOR ANY OF HIS GREATEST OR MOST MEMORABLE "PRODUCTIONS". YOU SEE, CHRIST WAS REMARKABLY "UNIQUE" BECAUSE HIS GRATEST CREATIONS AND "PERFORMANCES" CAME FROM "NOTHING"! A NUMBER OF THOSE WHOM HE PROSELYTIZED AND WHOM WENT ON TO BECOME AWESOMELY RECOGNIZED, AND EXECUTE GREAT WORKS, IN THEIR OWN RIGHTS, ALSO CAME FROM 'NOTHING", BECAUSE THEY WERE ORDINARY TENTMAKERS, FISHERMEN, AND ONE WAS EVEN, AN OVERZEALOUS, MURDERING 'GANGBANGER (SAUL), AND TRUE TO THEIR "MASTER'S PATTERN, THEY USUALLY DID MUCH, FROM THE SUBSTANCE OF "NOTHING" AS WELL. THE GOOD THING ABOUT "NOTHING" IS THAT NOBODY WANTS TO "BE" IT, AND NOBOBY WANTS TO "CLAIM" IT, SO GOD ALWAYS GETS THE GLORY! WHEN CHRIST HEALED THE BLIND MAN AT BETHSAIDA, HE DIDN'T SEND FOR ANY HIGH TECH OPTHALMOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT OR WONDER DRUGS, BUT RATHER, HE REACHED DOWN INTO "NOTHING", AND UTILIZED THE VERY DIRT THAT MEN "WALK ON", (THERE'S A GREAT DEPTH OF REVELATION IN THIS STATEMENT) AND THE SPIT OF HIS OWN MOUTH, AND CAME UP WITH A DOCUMENTABLE MIRACLE WORTHY OF THE HIGHEST "AMA" AWARD. BETTER YET, WHEN HE MADE HIS "DEBUT" AS THE ORIGINAL "MIRACLE WORKER", OVER AT CANA, IT IS EVIDENT THAT HE USED "NOTHING" TO TURN THAT EVERYDAY UNFILTERED, UNCHLORINATED H2O, INTO HIGH QUALITY "CHABLIS" OR FULL BODIED "BURGUNDY", BUT WE'RE CERTAIN IT WASN'T "BOONE'S FARM"! WHEN PETER, IN A FIT OF ANGER, CALLED HIMSELF BEING "RIDE OR DIE" FOR THE LORD, AND PROCEEDED TO RAZOR THE ROMAN SOLDIER'S OFF, CHRIST REACHED INTO HIS BAG OF "NOTHING" AND IMMEDIATELY REATTACHED IT, WITHOUT THE USE OF ANY "CATGUT SUTURES", OR CAUTERIZATION! WHEN HE WAS STARING THE "VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH" IN THE FACE, IN THE 'JUDGEMENT HALL", HE EXHIBITED, THE DEVIL DEFYING POWER OF BLESSED ASSURANCE, THROUGH CONFIDENT "SILENCE," AND SAID "NOTHING" TO HIS ACCUSERS, WHICH COMPELLED HIS FATHER TO "ANSWER' FOR HIM WHEN HE SENT AN EARTHQUAKE UP AT GOLGOTHA! WHEN GOD, SOVEREIGNLY, CHOSE THE HUMAN VESSEL , WHOSE WOMB WOULD BEAR THE SAVIOUR OF THE WHOLE WORLD, HE DIDN'T CHOOSE A "ROCKERFELLER", A "KENNEDY", OR A "ROTHSCHILD", BUT HE CHOSE A 14 YEAR OLD LITTLE VIRGIN GIRL, WHOM MANY LOOKED DOWN UPON AS "NOTHING", ESPECIALLY AFTER SHE HAD RECEIVED THE DIVINE "SEED" OF THE HOLY GHOST! IT WAS THE 'NOTHING" (THE MITE) OF THE WIDOW WOMAN THAT CAUGHT THE LORD'S ATTENTION, THAT ONE LITTLE COPPER CENT STOOD OUT IN THE MIDST OF ALL THE WEIGHTS OF GOLD, STACKS OF "BENJAMINS", "GOLD CARDS DELUXE" AND THICK ROLLS OF "DUBS", SO CASUALLY TOSSED INTO THE OFFERING PLATE, LIKE IT WAS NO MORE THAN A TIP TO A WAITRESS AT A SIDE-WALK CAFE', AND CAUSED HER STORY TO BE RECORDED IN ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST POWERFUL "BOOKS" OF ALL TIME, WHILE NOT EVEN THE "GENDER OF THE REAL "BIG BALLERS" WAS EVEN MENTIONED!! WHEN MEPHIBOSHETH FOUND HIMSELF IN A PRECARIOUS, UNCERTAIN SITUATION, MANY LOOKED UPON HIM, BECAUSE OF HIS BIRTH DEFECTS AND ORPHANAGE AS "NOTHING", AND OUT OF ALL THE 'RHODE'S SCHOLARS", "SEMINARIANS", THE ELITE, AND PRESTIGIOUS FOLK IN THE AREA, HE WAS THE ONE WHO RECEIVED A PERSONAL INVITATION TO COME AND LIVE IN THE ROYAL COMPOUND, AND NEVER HAVE TO WANT FOR ANYTHING OR SUFFER RIDICULE OR ABUSE AGAIN IN HIS LIFE. WE ARE ALL FAMILIAR WITH THE SHUNAMITE WOMAN'S STORY OF HER HAVING JUST ENOUGH FLOUR AND BAKING POWDER TO MAKE ONE NICE-SIZED "BISCUIT", AND HOW THE MAN OF GOD, ELIJAH, TOOK IT AND TURNED IT INTO A PERPETUAL SUPPLY OF "HAPPY MEALS"! THIS WASN'T HER GREATEST WONDER, BUT RATHER HOW THE LORD TOOK THE ABSOLUTE NOTHINGNESS OF "DEATH" AND REFASHIONED IT INTO A NEW LIFE, WHEN HER SON LAY READY FOR THE 'COOLING BOARD"! MANY OF YOU ARE GOD'S CHIEFEST AND MOST PROFOUND TESTIMONIES OF THE POWER OF "NOTHING" BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU, AND YOUR LIVES HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED, AND THAT'S WHAT'S BEEN SPOKEN OVER YOU, YOUR VISION, YOUR CHILDREN, AND EVEN SOME OF YOUR SACRIFICIAL OFEERINGS HAVE BEEN DISMISSED AS "NOTHING", BECAUSE OF THEIR SEVERE "0" DEFICIT! LET THIS WISDOM ENLIGHTEN AND ENCOURAGE YOUR VERY SOULS TODAY, THAT GOD MASTERS IN THE "WONDERMENT" AND EVOLUTION OF TAKING "NOTHING" AND CONVERTING IT INTO THE "PHENOMENAL", AND JUST WHAT THOSE WHO PERCEIVE THEMSELVES TO BE THE 'MOST, "THE "BEST", AND THE MOST AFFLUENT NEED! HYDROGNE AND OXYGEN EXIST AS GASES, IN THE FORM OF "NOTHING" TANGIBLE, YOU CAN'T SEE IT, TASTE IT, OR SMELL IT, BUT YOU ALSO CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT IT, NO MATTER HOW AFFLUENT, WEALTHY, PRIVILEGED, ESTEEMED, OR LEARNED, AND THAT'S WHAT YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF BEING TO THE VERY ONES WHO WOULDN'T SPLASH MUD ON YOU, IF YOU WERE IN FLAMES! THE APOSTLE PAUL SUMMED IT UP BEST, THAT " IN HAVING 'NOTHING", YET I POSSESSED "ALL THINGS"! I'LL TAKE NOTHING, IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT! OH YES, GIVE ME NOTHING!

0 members like this