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Big doors turn on small hinges…
The profundity of the statement comes when we start to look at applying the same principle to our lives. It was a small hinge day when someone invited me to go to church with them for the first time in my teenage years;
it was a small hinge day when another asked me if I had a relationship with God through Jesus Christ;
it was a small hinge day when I sat in an auditorium at Spring Harvest and preacher with the unlikely name of Winky Pratney challenged us to live a life that made a difference for God.
They were days like any other, and yet they were days like no other as they caused immense changes in my life, big doors started to open.
I have to tell you that there were small hinge days for me and my family over these last three months that I we have been away from you. God has blessed us beyond our wildest expectation, and do you know I have discovered again that that is just the kind of God he is.
I want to ask you this morning to open your hearts to allow God to take today and make it a small hinge to a great change in your life. I pray that we will all allow this week to be a time when the HS opens our eyes, hearts and souls to new things of God.
And as we come to our passage this morning I wish to set this challenge before you:
Come expectant – to meet God and be met by God in a new, fresh and exciting way. Let the HS come close to you. If we do that together, great things could happen to you and to this community to which we all belong, here at NCBC.
So to Deut 1:19ff – it is a sermon or maybe three sermons by Moses to the people of Israel before he died and before they entered the promised land – after 40 years wandering disobediently in the wilderness or the desert.
He is reviewing events and challenging his people once more.
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