“But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you.”- 1 John 2:27
Mark Batterson continues Chapter 5 of The Grave Robber with the story of Steve Stewart. Steve was asked by the Water4Foundation to design a water pump that could work anywhere in the world for less that $50. This was despite the fact that Steve had zero experience in the field of hydrodynamics. Yet, confronted with this challenge to his engineering mind, Steve replied: “I didn’t know it wasn’t possible.”
As Pastor Batterson points out, Steve was halfway to a miracle. For ten weeks he worked eighteen hour days. Running out of ideas, Steve stumbled on a five-hundred-year-old Leonardo Da Vinci sketch of a water pump in a book he’d purchased in Italy ten years earlier. Steve ultimately solved the problem at a cost of $17.84.
We might think Steve’s solution was a good idea. But his solution was more than that. It was a God idea. God ideas change history. Mark emphasizes that the key to this kind of miracle is the anointing:
“It’s a mysterious intangible that is difficult to define, but is supernaturally enables us to function beyond our ability. . . . It’s providential timing that results in supernatural synchronicities. It’s divine favor that defies human explanation. And the net result is that we become better than our best.”
Mark continues his discussion of this all-encompassing anointing in the next blog.
Today’s question: What God ideas have you experienced following your vocation loss? Please share.
Tomorrow’s blog: “God’s anointing”