WHAT IS OUR EXCUSE?

"I tell you the truth, anyone who

believes in me will do the same

works I have done, and even greater

works, because I am going to be

with the Father.  You can ask for 

anything in my name, and I will do

it, so that the Son can bring glory to

the Father.  Yes, ask me for any-

thing in my name, and I will do it."

(John 14:12 - 14 NLT)

I believe Jesus.  He only tells the truth.

Yet, I personally have never met anyone

who has done the works that Jesus did,

or greater.

Over the years I have read of great works

being done by Christians in different places.

But of the hundreds of Christians I have met,

none have done the works that Jesus did.

Yet Jesus said, "anyone who believes in me".

Do we not really believe?  Do we fail to ask?

Where is the problem?

I do not profess to have the answer.  But in

my wide reading over the years I have noticed

it pointed out that often the places God was

doing miracles was where the people were 

just simple uneducated people.

Jesus on a number of occasions indicated that

unless we become like little children we would

not even enter the kingdom of God.  One of the

features of a child is their simple trust, at least

until they have had that trust broken a number

of times.

Is it possible that we are not truly trusting God,

that we are not taking him at his word to us?