Best Year Ever: Part 2

This powerful message challenges us to move beyond the comfort of spiritual goosebumps and embrace genuine transformation. Through a deeply personal story of unexpected displacement—a home flooded on an anniversary morning, leading to thirteen weeks in a hotel—we discover that what initially appears as tragedy often reveals itself as inconvenience with purpose. The central question confronts us directly: do we want momentary emotional experiences or lasting change? Drawing from Mark 8, where Jesus feeds four thousand people and asks His disciples 'How many loaves do you have?', we're reminded that God doesn't ask what others can provide—He asks what we're willing to offer. The disciples had just witnessed the feeding of five thousand, yet they forgot so quickly. Don't we do the same? We shake our fingers at God asking 'What have you done for me lately?' when He's already demonstrated His faithfulness. The message cuts to the heart of modern Christianity: if we aren't ready to serve the lost, God will send them somewhere else. Our responses to inconvenience—whether it's hot water flooding our kitchen or disruptions to our comfortable routines—reveal whether we're truly representing Christ. The call is clear: embrace the new season God is bringing, even when it requires painful change, because the greatest tragedy isn't our discomfort but people dying without knowing Jesus.