Elijah has a fun little phrase he likes to say because it brings a smile to daddy’s face. Now you’ll need to “hear” this with a bit of a musical high, low, a little higher intonation. Ready? … “We are Here!”.

Horton Hears a Who, but who believes Horton? No one! Now, whether or not anyone believes Horton really had little bearing on his mission… until… that lunatic kangaroo. So Jane (the lunatic kangaroo) decides it’s not enough to just disagree with Horton, she decides to attack. This snowballs to the point that a mob is actually going to drop the entire world of Whoville into a pot of boiling oil! Why? … She’s a lunatic, that’s why.

Jesus asks us to live a life that is very difficult for a lot of people to accept. Just like Whoville our mission is virtually inconceivable. Some folks have the privilege of being surrounded with agreement on their mission, others, in the face of doubtful onlookers somehow flourish. Our own doubts are always the most difficult to overcome. Once that battle is won there isn’t much the likes of Jane (the lunatic kangaroo) can do to stop you. She will only make it hurt.

So now you believe. You know God has set you to something and you begin trudging up Mount Nool. A giant vulture (Vlad) is trying to snatch away your mission, but he is just the muscle for the lunatic kangaroo. She is the real enemy and it’s possible that even she isn’t sure why she is so determined to bring you failure. You have to know why. Yes, even she is not the real enemy.