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By Pastor Glenn Pease
Yes is only a three letter word, but its utterance can change your life.
It happened to the poet Robert Robinson one Sunday morning in London.
People everywhere were hurrying to church, but he was not.
He had left the church, and he had lost the once passionate faith that made him a zealous witness for Christ.
He was now dark and cold inside, and he was a very lonely man as he walked the streets.
He heard the clip clop, clip clop of a horse drawn cab behind him.
He turned and lifted his hand to hail the driver.
But then he saw that the cab was occupied by a young woman dressed for church.
He waved the driver on, but the woman ordered the carriage to be stopped.
The woman in the carriage said to him, "Sir, I'd be happy to share this carriage with you.
Are you going to church?"
He was about to decline when suddenly he was overcome by an urge to say yes.
He did it.
He said yes, and he got into the carriage.
As it rolled forward he told her his name, and she said, "What a coincidence.
I was just reading a verse by a poet with that name of Robert Robinson.
She reached into her purse and pulled out the small book of inspirational verse.
She handed it to him and he nodded and said, "Yes, I wrote these words years ago."
She exclaimed, "Oh, how wonderful!
Imagine!
I'm sharing a carriage with the author of these very lines."
She was thrilled with God's providence in her life, but she had no idea of the profound work God was doing in his life.
He opened his own book to his poem that became a famous hymn.
He read these words:
Come thou fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace.
Streams of mercy never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
His eyes filled with tears as he read the bottom of the page.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it-
Prone to leave the God I love,
Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
He was convicted and then revived by his own poem, and restored to fellowship with God.
It was all because he said yes to an invitation to do something he knew was the will of God, and that was to go to church.
The more we say yes to those things God wants in our lives, the more we will receive the yes of God's promises.
e. e. cummings wrote,
Yes is a world
And in this world of
Yes live (skillfully curled)
All worlds.
The world of salvation begins with our own yes to the Gospel.
Yes we say to God, I will receive your gift of eternal life in Christ.
From then on every stage of growth is a stage we advance to by saying yes to God.
Yes I will pray and read your word for guidance and wisdom.
Yes I will give of my time, talent, and treasure to bless the body of Christ, and yes I will give and I will go to fulfill the Great Commission.
Yes I will witness to my world, and yes I will love my neighbor as myself.
Yes I will love and praise and serve my Savior, and I will follow the path He reveals for me to follow.
The whole Christian life is a life of saying yes to God who has said yes to us in Jesus.
Paul in our text tells us that Jesus is never no, but always yes.
He is God's yes, and all God's promises are yes in Christ.
This is the greatest text in the Bible for the support of Christian optimism and biblical positive thinking.
1.
Is there life after death?
The answer of God in Christ is yes!
2. Is there hope for people who have messed their life up beyond human repair?
The answer of God in Christ is yes!
3. Is there a way out of the predicament men get into by their mere humanistic
schemes?
The answer of God in Christ is yes!
4. Can sin be forgiven?
The answer of God in Christ is yes!
5. Can the future still be a success?
The answer of God in Christ is yes!
6. Can broken relationships be restored?
The answer of God in Christ is yes!
7. Can impossible dreams still come true?
The answer of God in Christ is yes!
8. Can I overcome the past?
The answer of God in Christ is yes!
You can go on and on asking such hard questions, and the answer of God in Christ is always yes, yes, yes.
God's answer in Christ is always yes, for Jesus is the yes of God.
That is why the Christian can always celebrate even in fallen world filled with sin, sickness, and sorrow, for the final word will always be yes.
James Angell could write,
In the midst of flashing neon darkness,
We dare this day to celebrate the light.
In the midst of blaring, shouting silence,
We dare this day to celebrate the word.
In the midst of bloated, gorged starvation,
We dare this day to celebrate the bread.
In the midst of bottled, bubbling thirst,
We dare this day to celebrate the water.
In the midst of smothered, gnawing doubt,
We dare to celebrate the affirmation.
In the midst of frantic, laughing death,
We dare this day to celebrate life.
How can we have the audacity to be positive and hopeful in such a negative world?
It is because our Jesus is yes.
The Christian who is negative, and who says no more often than yes to life is a captive of the world mentality.
We all fall into the no mode from time to time, but it is to be a fall and not the ditch we choose to walk in.
We are to get back to the highway of yes, for that is where a Christian should always be walking.
Neil Eskelin wrote a fascinating book called Yes, Yes Living In A No, No World.
He found Christians in large measure tend to be a drag on the body the of Christ because of their no, no spirit.
They tend to be critical and resistant to a positive way of doing all things for the glory of God.
He learned the power of being a yes, yes father in relating to a no, no son.
His five year boy had the living room full of toys, and it was time to go to bed.
When he asked him to pick them up he said he was too tired.
His immediate response was to force him to clean up the room, but then he got a better idea.
He decided to try a more positive approach.
He took his son into the bedroom and laid down with his knees up, put his son up on them, and played Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
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