Doordash Jesus

That little boy said yes, thinking it would kill him. But Jesus said yes, knowing it would. That Jesus looked at the cross and knew everything it would cost him and still said yes. He didn't look for the minimum required. He gave everything to Sozo, to save messy, selfish, diseased people still standing at a distance. He gave everything to save people like me. He gave everything to save you. Was it enough? If the bank of heaven were to close today, if you never had another prayer answered in your life, if you never saw God move on your behalf, if you never received another blessing the rest of your days, would Jesus' love in the cross be enough? [01:13:33] (70 seconds)  #HisYesWasEnough

What I'm seeing here is that we're not very good at giving our problems to God. Thing is, the cup didn't move. I didn't hide the cup from you. I didn't put anything on top of it. But yet not a single person in here got their ping pong ball into the cup. God's not hiding from you. God hasn't moved. God's not the problem. Your problem's not the problem. The problem is what? your distance. It's the space. Because watch this. I'm not a better shot than everybody else in the room. It's the same cup. It's just another problem, but I'm a lot closer. You gotta find ways in your life, every opportunity you can, to draw closer to the miracle maker. [00:52:31] (64 seconds)  #DrawCloserToGod

That means nine of the 10 treated Jesus the same way that I think all of us do at some point, if not more reg more often than not in our lives. These 10 guys treated Jesus like the DoorDash driver. Right? Jesus, we got this issue. Jesus, help us out. I need you to do it quick, easy, and now. I need you to take care of it. I placed my order, Jesus. Leave it at the door. And if I like what I got, then I might leave a tip. Those nine guys got what they ordered, and they didn't need to see the driver. And if we're honest, isn't that what we do with God? That we want the meal with none of the inconvenience. We want the peace without the prayer life that builds it. We want the provision without the obedience that positions us for it. We want the healthy marriage without the hard work and the difficult conversations. We want kids that love Jesus without the consistent modeling of how to follow Jesus ourselves. We want God to give us a 100%, and we wanna know what the bare minimum is. [01:02:43] (69 seconds)  #DontTreatGodLikeDelivery

Second reason that I could think of is when Jesus when he gave that command, go show yourself to the priest, their flesh was still rotting. They were still disfigured. They were still missing fingers. One guy didn't have his nose. And they and when Jesus said, go to the priest, it wasn't like all of a sudden there was some shiny light that came down on them. They didn't feel a tingle anywhere. Jesus just said, go show yourselves to the priest. He didn't say, on your way, I'm gonna heal you. On your way is gonna get he said one thing, go. And they went. And on the they were healed. Why did Jesus do it that way? Because you can read in other places. There was other places that he healed lepers right there in the moment. He put his hands on them, and they were healed. He didn't do that here. What's the point? Why did Jesus do this miracle different? Because it's not about the miracle. Jesus is creating an opportunity for relationship. [00:46:47] (53 seconds)  #MiracleCreatesRelationship

And gratitude manifests in our lives looking like worship, thanking God for what he's given us, what he's placed into our lives, or the things that he's done in our lives. Gratitude looks like obedience and reading God's word, studying it, knowing more about him. Obedience and doing what the Bible says. Obedience and sharing the love that God gives us with people that so desperately need to be loved by him. Gratitude looks like generosity. That when God tells us to trust him with a portion of what he's given us, that instead of asking what is the least I can give, what is the what what can I afford to give right now? God, I'll give you that later on when I have enough. Instead saying, God, I'm gonna trust you first because you've already given me more than I could ever ask or imagine. [01:12:42] (50 seconds)  #GratitudeIsAction

Man, as you read the story, it's really easy to think about those other nine guys and be like, they're the worst. Right? I mean, ungrateful jerk faces. But remember the context. These guys, we have no idea how long they spent as diseased, hopeless outcasts. What if they had spent years having their entire lives ripped away from them because of this disease? And here in this moment, Jesus told them to go show themselves. They literally risked their lives to take that step that Jesus said. So don't you dare judge them because I can't say in my own life that I've ever had to risk my life to do what something that Jesus has said. I have to risk my convenience, and I don't even do a very good job of that. But these guys put their life on the line. They took a step, and as they went, they began to be healed. [00:55:26] (58 seconds)  #DontJudgeTheirJourney

I wouldn't recommend that as the beginning of your prayer life. Thank God. Thank you that you didn't make me that other guy. That's not a great place to start. But that's where they began. There was so much between these two people. But yet, as we read further in Luke chapter 17, we'll discover that of these 10 men, it was a mixture of both Samaritans and Jewish people. That despite all they had dividing them, their disease erased it all. They were brought together by their loneliness, by their despair, by their hopelessness. Differences don't matter when you have a drastic enough circumstance. I think what that could teach us is that all of us are one crisis away from realizing those people that are so different than us, those people that that that we push away, those people that we quietly despise, that we're one crisis away from realizing that they're just messy people exactly like us with the same problems, the same needs, and the same Jesus that can heal it all. [00:42:13] (67 seconds)  #OneCrisisAway

And when I'm telling God that I can't do what he says, and I'm negotiating with what I can give him, what do I expect him to give me? A 100%. And I expect it quick and easy and now. Are we asking God for real intimacy while we're only offering limited availability? Are we asking God? Are we asking him to give us closeness while we choose to stand at a distance. The problem is not God withholding delight. It's that our discount devotion does not get us close enough to enjoy what he wants to give us. That Samaritan leper, that pagan, he got something that the rest did not. He understood that he didn't belong in the story, that he did not deserve anything, but yet he was given healing. And understanding he deserved nothing was given everything, it changed what he was willing to give back. [01:08:49] (76 seconds)  #NoDiscountDevotion