My wife has terrible allergies. One day while watching Oprah has a doc on to tell the world how to remediate the problem of stuffy noses and sneezing with something called the neti pot. This is a ceramic pot that looks like something you would rub for a wish, but instead it relieves of your allergies. I decided, being the amazing husband I am, to order my wife this amazing remedy. As a side note...yes I was watching Oprah...and yes she influenced me to buy the neti pot. Within 24 hours of her show being broadcast every single neti pot had been purchased, I know because I called a thousand different stores. Their response, "we don't know what's happening, all we know is that the phone is ringing off the hook and were completely sold out, but we can back order it for you sir, " Yeah go ahead and do that."
I would love for the Church of Jesus Christ to be so influential that people would be standing around going " I don't know what's going on." In Acts 2 we see this happen with the arrival of he Holy Spirit. Believers are quick to point out how amazing this is, and how they desire it for our world, and then continue living as normal. What gets me is the Holy Spirit dwells inside each and every follower of Christ and yet we looks to Acts 2 and go "man that would be awesome."
John 14:12 tells us that we will have the ability to do even greater things here on earth than Jesus did....that's insane! Jesus knew if we tapped into the power and influence of the Holy Spirit, Oprah would look at us and be influenced.
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Unfortunately there's the other one. He tells us we can't and we believe him. He tells us that we aren't special enough to do greater things on Earth than Jesus did and we believe him. He influences people to tell us we are crazy to think that we can do great things through Jesus and we believe them. It's what he does. It's all he does. He's good at what he does because he does it in such a way that we don't even realize he is doing it to us. He's sneaky and a schemer. He has been getting to me lately in a way that he knows I am vulnerable. My personal life. He knows I feel lonely and would like someone to share my life and faith with. So when I find someone who I think might be such a person, he gets into my head and tells me I'm not good enough and there's no way that person could like me the same way I like them. He puts that doubt in me because he knows it will work. What do I do? Influence is everywhere.
Yeah, imagine, just imagine if the Holy Spirit got ahold of Oprah. I know that's not your point, but wow would our country be different. Stores would be sold out of bibles, Francis Chan books, and Mark Driscoll books. Jeff Gokee would be the new Dr. Phil, and he'd come in every week and tell people how selfish they are and how to love their wives as Christ loves the church. It would be awesome.
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