Faith like...

I just watched the movie "Faith Like Potatoes" last night. It has shaken me up severely (so much so, that while I should be taking a shower right now, and getting ready to take my parents out to dinner for their anniversary, I'm sitting here typing instead). It is a true story about an ordinary farmer from South Africa named Angus Buchan. Angus has a dynamic relationship with God (as in, the God of the Bible, whose son is Jesus Christ, who died and rose again for the sins of men). Angus' faith is simple: take God at His word. When he tells you to do something, do it, even if you don't see how it will be accomplished. And let me tell you, this man has had extra ordinary things accomplished through him.
A runaway fire was threatening his livelihood, and he felt like he should pray for rain, so he prayed for rain and it rained, on a day when there were no clouds and no predictions of rain.
On a stormy night, a gaggle of Zulu women came rushing to his house to tell him that one of them had been struck by lightning and killed. He came to the house, telling them to put her in his car and he would take her to the hospital. They told him no, that they wanted to see the power of Jesus Christ at work, the power he was always preaching about. So he went into the house, and he prayed for the woman, and she was raised from the dead by God. In the movie, he looked as astonished as the woman did that she was raised from the dead! :)
During El Nino, a total drought season for South Africa, Angus felt God impress on his heart to plant crops of potatoes, the most expensive crop to plant, and very difficult to grow as he needed LOTS of water for irrigation and such (you'll have to forgive my lack of potato growing knowledge). No one thought he should risk it, but he said, "The conditions for a miracle are difficulty, but the condition for a great miracle is impossiblity." And they harvested a BUMPER crop of potatoes.
The list is endless, and it occurs to me: everything that happened with and through Angus is simply a result of his relationship with God. He simply spends time with God, hears God "speak" and responds. That's it. He doesn't put his faith in having a certain spiritual gift, or having a certain ministry, or a certain career. He simply FOLLOWS Jesus. That's it!!!!
As I look at my life stretching out before me, hopefully many many more years of it, I am filled with amazement at what COULD BE. I could have a life just as extraordinary as Angus Buchan's.
Will God heal people through me, or raise people from the dead, or send rain when there is no hope of rain?
It is not beyond anyone's reach to have a life as extraordinary as Angus Buchan.
I simply have to KNOW God and listen to Him and respond, taking Him at His word that He'll accomplish through me what He's asked me to do.
At the end of the movie, Angus is talking to the children who lived at his and his wife's orphanage (yes, they started an orphanage as well). He's holding a potato, and he says something to the effect of, "Take ahold of one of these potatoes. Feel it, smell it. Your faith in God should be like that. You can feel it and smell it. Your faith in God should be like potatoes." Faith like potatoes.
I want that kind of faith. I am giving myself to God, no holds barred, no stipulations. I will spend time with Him, getting to know him, listening to Him. And I will respond. Lord, help me to do this. You know how faithless I am sometimes, often times.
Someday, in the future, I wonder what I will say. What SOMETHING God will accomplish in my life, the way he did in Angus' life, that will make me say, "your faith in God should be like..." What will my analogy be?
Faith like...???