I think I got a little sore from baptising Sunday. That is not a brag but a admission of my age. It was a neat baptism - a very memorable one, but not the most memorable one. Right now what stands out in my mind is baptising three international students earlier this summer.
It really boggles my mind that I got to baptize three students from China, the land of Lottie Moon. Lottie gave her life to missions and laid down her life by giving her food away to the people she loved in a famine. She died on ship as other missionaries tried to get her home.
What would she have said if she could have been at Northside that day? How could she ever have dreamed that the great grandchildren of the people she ministered to would come to America and come to know Christ? It would have been beyond her dreams and beyond her imagination.
I wonder what Charlie Culpepper would have said if he could have been in worship with us that day? Charlie grew up in Karnes County, Texas but God called him to China. He was a part of a great revival there. His reports home were so incredible in the numbers of people coming to Christ, the Foreign Mission Board sent people to check out what he was saying. It was true; God did a mighty work. What would he have said to see the grand children of the people he went to China to reach being baptized in Victoria, Texas? Could he ever have prayed a prayer that big?
On any given day, God can answer in a way that goes beyond our prayers, beyond our imagination, for His glory. Maybe today or tomorrow or Sunday could be such a day for you. How great is our God!
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21
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