Can I let you in on something big?

Many of us grew up dreaming about getting in on something big in our lives.

For a lot of people it’s more wishful thinking than a dream with goals and a plan, but the idea of being part of something “big” has an allure for many. Stephen Kingsley tells of how a few different people stumbled their way into something that turned out big for them …

Every one of us wants to be a part of something big, something that really makes an impact.

Once standing in line at a fast food restaurant, two women were talking. One was talking to the other about having purchased stock in Starbucks when it was only $1.30, and how it was now trading at over $20. I did the math and …

I remember listening to a late night talk radio show while driving cross country and a guy came on the radio and said when he was in college in the late ’80s a friend had convinced him to buy $10,000 worth of Microsoft when it was under fifty cents. He said, “I feel terribly guilty but I am a multi-millionaire several times over.” He described his home in the mountains of Eastern Oregon and said, “I can go anywhere and do anything I want to do …”

In 1963 a man by the name of Robert Kearns was driving his 1963 Ford Galaxy in very light rain and noticed that he was having to continually turn his wipers on and off, so he invented and patented the mechanism for intermittent windshield wipers. His idea was stolen by most of the world’s automakers and he had to sue them to get paid, but he ended up a multi-millionaire.

Such a simple idea, right? When you hear stories like that, you think, “I could have done that.”

Here’s the problem. At the time of discovery, no one really knew these “big ideas” were going to be all that big.

These people wound up striking it big even though they had no idea at the time just how big the outcome of their investment or activity would be.

That’s very different from something really big you and I are invited to participate in. The single biggest thing happening in human history is God’s work of reconciling humanity to a New Covenant relationship with Him. God has been working through all of human history to accomplish this task, and at the right time, He sent His Son to be a sacrifice for our sins — God has achieved everything necessary to reconcile us to Himself!

Now here’s the really big thing for us …

Since God has done what we couldn’t — the work of achieving reconciliation — He is now appointing us as His personal ambassadors and handing to us His ministry of reconciliation, complete with the message to deliver and everything! The Bible explains this really big opportunity this way:

“And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, ‘Come back to God!’” 2 Corinthians 5:18-20.

Nothing since the fall of man in the Garden of Eden has been as important than humanity’s need to be reconciled to God, and making that reconciliation possible has been the BIG work of God. Now He’s letting us in on something big … He intends to make His appeal for reconciliation through us!

We couldn’t be a part of anything bigger than this!

Equipped with “… this wonderful message of reconciliation …” it is OUR ministry to be God’s vessels (ambassadors) through which His appeal for reconciliation is made.

Have you gotten in on this really big opportunity yet?

Scotty