{"id":20664,"date":"2001-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2001\/04\/01\/heart-soul-25\/"},"modified":"2001-04-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-04-01T00:00:00","slug":"heart-soul-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/heart-soul-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart &#038; Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead2\">The Babe in Blythe and God&#8217;s ministry mercy.<\/h2>\n\n<p>Peter Taylor Forsyth said God is an infinite opportunist. I believe that, and \nhere is one reason why: the Babe in Blythe.<\/p>\n\n<p>Blythe is a desert town on the Arizona-California border. My family and I were on our way back home from vacation when we stopped at a McDonald&#8217;s in Blythe. It was packed with tired travelers like us. Lauretta, my wife, asked me to hold Mary, our eighteen-month old, while she went to the restroom and our three sons romped in the play area.<\/p>\n\n<p>Picture me holding my daughter, a few feet from the restroom doors, as the Babe from Blythe emerged from behind those doors. She was gorgeous&mdash;tan and dressed as, well, as young women are wont to dress in warm desert climates.<\/p>\n\n<p>And she was looking right at me, smiling warmly! My fatigued mind was suddenly focused. I straightened up and smiled back, flush with the adolescent conceit that even though I was much older than she was, I must still be a very attractive man. Babes still take notice!<\/p>\n\n<p>Our smiles and eyes met for longer than a mere random encounter as she walked past. Then I noticed my reflection in the mirror along the wall and saw who she was smiling at. It was me, all right, but it wasn&#8217;t Ben Patterson the Mature Hunk. It was Ben Patterson, Mary&#8217;s Daddy. He was middle aged, a little lumpy, and holding a precious child. That&#8217;s what delighted the Babe.<\/p>\n\n<p>My first reaction was embarrassment. Silly fool, you aren&#8217;t what you thought you were!<\/p>\n\n<p>But as I continued to look in the mirror, I decided I liked what I saw there more than I liked what I first thought the Babe saw. I like being Mary&#8217;s Daddy. I like it a lot. Ditto for Dan and Joel and Andy. It&#8217;s better to be a daddy than a stud. My deflation turned into elation.<\/p>\n\n<p>Whether or not that is what Forsyth meant by God being an infinite opportunist, that&#8217;s what I mean. He orchestrated my lust and conceit into a blessed realization of my true glory and happiness. God was smiling at me through the smile of the Babe in Blythe.<\/p>\n\n<p>With one deft stroke, he seized the moment, stripped me bare, and clothed me with mercy.<\/p>\n\n<p>He&#8217;s done that my whole life. I remember the first time, as I was preaching, I made a broad gesture and several heads in the congregation turned and looked where I was pointing. The same flush I felt in Blythe came over me. They&#8217;re really listening to me! I point this way and they look this way. Feels good! I did it again, and again heads turned.<\/p>\n\n<p>Later, when I thought about the flush and the tawdry little experiment, I was stricken with shame. A snarling zoo of false motives was exposed. I&#8217;m often shocked at all the wrong reasons I have for doing the right things.<\/p>\n\n<p>Many times, when I am thus stripped bare, I have been tempted to resign the ministry. I have no right to be a minister of the gospel. That is, of course, correct&mdash;but in more than one way. I have no right because of my sin, and no right because of God&#8217;s mercy. The ministry is never a right, always a mercy.<\/p>\n\n<p>The apostle Paul is clear: it is &#8220;through God&#8217;s mercy we have this ministry,&#8221; the upshot being, therefore, &#8220;we do not lose heart&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2%20Corinthians+4%3A1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"view Scripture passage at BibleGateway.com\" rel=\"noopener\">2 Cor. 4:1<\/a>). We were saved by grace, we are saved by grace, and we will be saved by grace. What made me a child of God also makes me his servant. God made a bad man like Paul an apostle simply to show the world how gracious he is (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20Timothy+1%3A15\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"view Scripture passage at BibleGateway.com\" rel=\"noopener\">1 Tim. 1:15<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20Timothy+1%3A16\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"view Scripture passage at BibleGateway.com\" rel=\"noopener\">16<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n<p>My friends, I could not minister another day in Christ&#8217;s name if I did not believe this was the truth.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-style-article-bio\">Ben Patterson is campus pastor at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. <a href=\"mailto:Bpatters@westmont.edu\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"bio\" rel=\"noopener\">Bpatters@westmont.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-style-article-copyright\">Copyright &copy; 2001 by the author or Christianity Today\/<em class=\"citation\">Leadership<\/em> Journal.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/le\/help\/permissionsprivacy\/permissions.html#answer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"copyright\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> for reprint information on <em class=\"citation\">Leadership<\/em> Journal.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Babe in Blythe and God&#8217;s ministry mercy. 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