Much of ministry matches the description Jesus gives in the Gospel of Mark - of a farmer that daily rises and sleeps and works the land, and the growth comes through a somewhat unclear process of that daily labor [Mark 4: 26-29].Last night, though, I got to see some of the fruit of God’s work and God’s mysterious power in the live of one young man - Andy. I met Andy a year ago as he started coming to DEEP through the Gospel Choir. He is an athletic guy that ran track and love basketball who is majoring in business and wants to focus on music production. He was one of the original group of guys that started 2Deep - our men’s ministry.

Spiritually, Andy had grown up around the church and had some spiritual convictions, but got most of his cues from the world around him. But as he has stayed involved in the fellowship of Christians on campus and gotten more hungry for the Bible, his convictions have grown. I’d been noticing this in Andy and thought I would share with him about how proud God was of the ways he was growing and becoming more a man of God.

So after our fellowship meeting last night, I pulled him aside briefly, just to bless him. I shared a verse from Scripture that I felt that the Lord had directed me to the night before for Andy, from 1 Kings 2:2. It is David’s words to Solomon before he dies. At first Andy was a little confused - “How did I see that he was becoming more of a man?” When I shared the verse with him, his face lit up, with a smile from ear to ear. His face spoke not just of joy, but also of shock. He told me, “I can’t believe this because these past several months I’ve been feeling like God has been telling me that I’m becoming a man. And now this scripture that you are showing me is confirming that same thing. Wow!! God is really trying to do something.”

It was beautiful to see. And honestly, I was humbled by God’s sovereignty. I almost hadn’t shared the verse with Andy, thinking it wasn’t that important. Yet God had been doing a work in Andy that was bearing fruit and beginning to show forth that needed to be affirmed and confirmed.