Do you ever feel stuck in your spiritual life? Does it ever seem like you just don’t really grow anymore? Have you wondered whether the honeymoon phase of your walk with the Lord is over and now you two are like a grumpy old married couple that isn’t really going anywhere, but just waiting it out? Sometimes, when you look at your own life and heart, it’s easy to feel as though nothing is happening. Church is routine. Worship is dry. The Bible is cold and lifeless. Is Jesus finished with you? Has He given up the project like a construction crew that ran out of money? Is He leaving you, like a half-completed building sitting out in the weather, to slowly decay into a ruin? No. He’s not done with you just yet. I know it can feel this way, but Jesus isn’t finished. In fact, He’s just getting started. When you read the last page of the Gospel of John, it really feels like you’ve come to the end of something. Jesus died, was buried, rose from the dead and appeared to His guys. All the sermons have been preached, the miracles have been performed, the prophecies have been fulfilled and that’s the end, right? No. Not even close. One of my very favorite verses in the whole Bible is on the very next page. In the first verse of Acts 1, Luke says that his former account told all that Jesus began to do and teach. It didn’t say He was finished doing and teaching things, only that the Gospel account contained what He began to do and teach. Jesus is still at work. He’s still teaching. He has things in store you simply wouldn’t believe.
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