Thursday, January 29, 2015

Give it your best

I have a coach, now. I'm still not absolutely sure what she is coaching, whether it's professional or personal or a it of both, as Peter Quill would say if you know what I mean. But she's working hard on me, and I feel a sense of empowerment.

So, here we go.

Part of what we're exploring is based on Romans 12. I read from the beginning (in the Message), "So here's what I want you to do. God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life -- your sleeping, eating, going-to-work and walking around life -- and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for your is the best thing your can do for him."

What she is driving at in Romans 12 comes below, talking about the various parts of a human body, and how each part has meaning and function.

But before we arrive there, we get to the above scripture.

Look at it this way: whatever your job is, treat it as if God gave it to you, because he did. Whatever your perceive your talents to be, do them to the best of your ability because they are God-given.

Think of what this world could be like if only the ones who were card-carrying Christians (I know, I know, there is no such thing) signed up in their churches for the areas they are talented in, gifted in, and did those things with joy and purpose. What would the world be like if everyone used whatever time is left in their lives to make other lives better? What could we accomplish as the church if everyone stood up and stepped up and coached up and student-ed up and you get the mental picture by now i think.

Churches that are growing understand this principle. It's about doing. It's about being. It's about living into what God has given us.

Paul says this: "If you preach, just preach God's message, nothing else. If you help, just help, don't take over; if you teach, stick to your teaching; if you give encouraging guidance, be careful you don't get bossy; if you're put in charge, don't manipulate; if you're called to give aid to people in distress, keep your eyes open and be quick to respond; if you work with the disadvantaged, don't let yourself get irritated with them or depressed by them. Keep a smile on your face."

If picking up Cheereos from the floor where your toddler has deposited them is your job, do it well. If being head of a major company, do it the best you can.

Do it all as a gift from the one who loves us most.

That's the idea.

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