Don’t Try This at Home
Growing up I enjoyed watching wrestling shows. They were exhilarating and full of action. I made sure I missed none. Twice a week I was glued to the TV watching these huge men perform insane stunts. There was no end to the adrenaline rush. People jumping off the ropes, getting smacked in the face with chairs, and in all this, no one ever really got hurt. However there was a prevailing message that was clear in each episode, it was in bold unmistakable letters, “Don’t try this at home”. They flashed it before my eyes every now and then. It was clear in my mind even as a child that the show was pure entertainment. I knew everything I saw was just a show. My momma didn’t raise a fool, as the others kids in school broke each other’s arms replicating what they watched on TV, I stood on the sidelines.
It was all about looking up to athletes and never trying what they did. It was strictly for my eyes to see and mind to imagine but never to be experienced. Good for TV but don’t try this at home.
When I started learning the Word as a young kid, I looked up to the characters in the Word, more so Jesus. To me everything in the Word was practical. It was something I could at some point experience in the physical world but once I grew up my mind was corrupted with doubt. Like many Christians, I approached the Word and the promises of God with this same attitude as the wrestling shows. I supposedly believed the scriptures were true and reliable but I never got to a place where I could see them come to fruition. It’s like all that’s written in the Word is just for show but in real life, you can’t try it. The Word says you have authority over snakes and scorpions but when the scorpions arrive you run off because even God understands some things are not to be tried. The Word just says some things for the sake of it. God didn’t think we would try to experiment with the Word, poor God, if only He knew we would He’d not say some of the stuff He said.
When Jesus lived amongst us, He served as an example of how we should operate. He did all He did as Man. Took authority over demons, healed every sickness, healed the maimed, delivered the captive from bondage and so on. All of this is not in the category of “Don’t try this at home”. These things He clearly said are to be done by us. We can perform the same works and even greater ones.
Are the things which Jesus and the Apostles did out of bounds for us today? Of course not!
Some of us a terrified of believing God for some stuff. We can’t go to some lengths with Jesus. You know those things happened then but you can’t try this stuff nowadays. It’s not safe. God might disappoint you and embarrass you. Don’t ask that much of Him, don’t trust God that much, He may not be ready for such a demand. It’s not wise to trust God during a pandemic, what happens if He wasn’t ready for your ask? What if He has too many people looking to Him? Don’t be stupid, follow the masses, you can’t just rely on God for this thing.
Don’t believe for that thing, you’re making Him sweat, He’s terrified you’re asking for more than He can supply. He’s almost wetting His pants worried that you’re going put a serious heavy-duty demand on Him. If you walking and see a crippled person, God gets uptight on His throne hoping and wishing you don’t tell those people they can leave their wheelchairs.
He’s almost begging you to stop leading people on. He’s hoping you don’t tell others to trust Him for the healing. “Oh my, I hope he doesn’t believe Me for this, he’ll break those hearts and tarnish My Name when I don’t perform, peradventure they’ll ask too much, oh what will I do?”. Then He starts biting His nails.
Sure it seems like a farfetched scenario but is it really? We don’t believe God for Healing, miracles, finances and we don’t even dare tell others about such because they might take us seriously and believe. Then we embarrass ourselves and place a demand on God that He cannot meet.
Listen to our prayers, we ask for one small thing because if we asked for more maybe God would have to go into debt to fulfil it or maybe He’d fall off His throne or Heaven would have to forego its clean water supply so as to be able to meet your demand.
Everything that is written in the Word for us is a Sure Promise that Jesus can most certainly deliver. He is all-powerful, which means a pimple on your face, pandemics, financial mountains, blind eyes, missing organs etc are all equally easy for Him. Above all of these, He loves us and lives in us. It’s Him who works in us. Let us go forth and utilize this power that we have. He desires that of us. These things weren’t written for sake of writing, they are a demonstration of what we can achieve. Stop calling God a liar. Try believing in the Word.
They say “don’t try this at home” but Jesus says “these signs shall follow all those who believe” and “nothing is impossible for he who believes”. Nothing means Nothing.
Go ahead and try it.
