The moments of change often slip by unnoticed. There isn’t a “big healing.” There isn’t a great time of prayer and then you “hear the voice of God.” There are moments, though. They go almost unnoticed. Yet, you look back and realize, “That was it! That was the time!”

There is a moment in Luke 10 where Jesus shouted with such joy because he could see what was happening. He could see that the Father’s plan was going to work in this world.

What exactly was the miracle, the singular point? By itself, Jesus’s birth was not the singular point. Even his obedience in his baptism was not the point, nor his soul-deep appropriation of the love of God. There had to be one more vital element for Jesus to be a true singular point. This one element is what Jesus is cheering about with such rafter-raising, hallelujah-hollering, Holy Ghost–praising rejoicing. And if we miss this one unifying element for the whole of Jesus’s life, we miss it all.

The one critical element bringing about the greatest singular point of all time was the effective reproduction of his own life and way of God-living into the lives of others. It follows that the most spectacular and significant miracles within this historical miracle that Jesus lived and reproduced was not the changing of water into wine, or the healing of human bodies, or even the raising of the dead. It was his capacity to transform “sheep” into “shepherds” after his own heart.  Just as Elton Trueblood observed, “I believe that Jesus is the Christ, not because of what men wrote about him, but rather what they became because of him.”

There is more HERE and I invite you take in this magnificent essay. It is full of joy and hope. The Kingdom of God works!

Shout HALLELUJAH!