This powerful story demonstrated the power of one woman’s faith, obedience and God’s amazing work. The pastor mentioned how his mother contracted a devastating, life-altering disease and how the Lord was still able to do jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring things regardless. Watch the short but heartwarming clip to hear this tear-jerking story of faith that shows that little is much when God is involved.
Human beings are by nature fallen and lost. Perfection is not an achievable state for anyone. We all have our failures, flaws and blemishes, and this doesn’t change even after confessing our sins and accepting the Lord’s forgiveness. We will always fall short here and there, but thank God for His grace because without it. It is only through His continual grace that we are forgiven and have hope and a future.
Amazingly, even though humans are imperfect and make a mess of anything and everything, God can and still does work in those situations. He can bring about beauty where there is destruction and ruin. He regularly turns our messes into masterpieces, creating something we never thought possible.
In a clip posted on YouTube, a pastor shares a powerful story about his mother, which happened when he was a little kid, around 8 years old.
Sadly, the story begins with the pastor of his church telling his mother, who had just contracted polio, that the church no longer wanted her and her family to attend. She was, according to that pastor, “God was through with her.” What person, who considers themselves a Christian, thinks that, let alone says it to someone?
Well, she refused to listen to that pastor’s hurtful words. She knew that the Lord was not done with her. Soon, another pastor came into town, and he put that woman in charge of the church’s Sunday school. Sunday school attendance was next to nothing, but she was faithful and obedient, trusting God would deliver.
And He did in a big, powerful and surprising way. No one could have ever predicted or envisioned how the Lord would come through in that situation.
Jeremiah 32:17 “Ah, Lord God! See, You have made the heaven and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm, and there is nothing you are not able to do:”