A walking everyday miracle

Only God knows exactly how much He can increase the impact of the steps that an NG-group takes for Jesus in their school. The steps can be tired, the pace can be slow, hope can be rare, but taking those steps is vital!

There is a story in the old testament of four men with leprosy (2 Kings 7). Honestly, they were real pessimists (although they had their reasons for being gloomy, as a leper you weren’t welcome anywhere and life was just waiting for death). Anyway, they decided that while they were waiting for death, they would go to the enemy camp where their countrymen were held prisoner, to see if there was anything to do there. 

“it could be worth it to take those small, stubborn, sometimes uninspired steps.”

The thing is that when they got there, the camp was empty. Everyone had fled. Super strange. The reason was that God had apparently made their footsteps sound like galloping horses with carriages! It had sounded as if an entire army was on its way and the enemy had fled on foot and left all their belongings. The four pessimists had not only found silver and gold that the enemy had taken, but also set their whole people free!

You don’t need to be suffering from leprosy to feel that life sometimes is more of a challenge and dead wind than it is success and tailwind, unfortunately it can be easy to reject yourself and think that you are under the worst conditions in the world. Maybe the school group is in a slump right now or you might be drowning in school stress. Even though everything you want to do those days is to lie down and give up, it could be worth it to take those small, stubborn, sometimes uninspired steps. God has probably thought bigger thoughts about them than you have, he will make your small steps thunder, so much that people in your school can see more hope and maybe even meet the great love of Jesus. Every New Generation group, large or small, is a walking everyday miracle, term after term!