Text for the week: Colossians 3:17
Well, that about does it, right? That’s about all that needs to be said. We’ve transitioned and turned the corner. Because of where we are in the semester, we find ourselves thinking about Thanksgiving break and all that goes with it.
I think of Thanksgiving Day (the first day Christmas music is allowed in my home), putting up Christmas decorations, watching the Lions lose again, eating turkey till I bust, and the traditional clash between my beloved Buckeyes and the boys wearing the ugly helmets north of the state line. (Got your attention on that one, didn’t I?)
I’m not sure how you are, but I compartmentalize my life pretty easily. It’s natural for me to just move on and forget what I’ve just done because it’s done, over, finis (thought I’d throw a little French in there). It’s already getting colder, getting dark early, and everything seems to be rapidly moving us toward the end of the semester and on to Christmas. So, before our minds wander too far away from topic, here is one last thought: Whatever you do for God matters.
This semester, I know we’ve talked a lot about going, but I want you to know that whatever you do and wherever you do it, matters. When Tony Campolo was here, he challenged us to go where we are needed — not where anyone else could do what we do. I think he said it something like this: “Why would you go someplace and do what you do, if a lot of other people can do it, instead of going someplace where what you do is needed, and no one wants to go?”
Before we put a bow on this box and put it under the tree, I hope you will think about that challenge one more time. I don’t care where you go. I just want you to find God waiting for you when you get there. I don’t care what you do — that’s not my call. I just want you to do the very thing that God created you to do, and that’s between the two of you.
I trust God to help you discover what that is, and where you will do it. I believe He is capable of speaking that into your heart, if you’re listening. I don’t think we necessarily need to do anything differently to hear Him, just be attentive to the ways He is speaking to us every day. It’s the little things that matter most. Whatever we do for God matters. It makes all the difference in the world.
Well, that about does it, right? That’s about all that needs to be said. We’ve transitioned and turned the corner. Because of where we are in the semester, we find ourselves thinking about Thanksgiving break and all that goes with it.
I think of Thanksgiving Day (the first day Christmas music is allowed in my home), putting up Christmas decorations, watching the Lions lose again, eating turkey till I bust, and the traditional clash between my beloved Buckeyes and the boys wearing the ugly helmets north of the state line. (Got your attention on that one, didn’t I?)
I’m not sure how you are, but I compartmentalize my life pretty easily. It’s natural for me to just move on and forget what I’ve just done because it’s done, over, finis (thought I’d throw a little French in there). It’s already getting colder, getting dark early, and everything seems to be rapidly moving us toward the end of the semester and on to Christmas. So, before our minds wander too far away from topic, here is one last thought: Whatever you do for God matters.
This semester, I know we’ve talked a lot about going, but I want you to know that whatever you do and wherever you do it, matters. When Tony Campolo was here, he challenged us to go where we are needed — not where anyone else could do what we do. I think he said it something like this: “Why would you go someplace and do what you do, if a lot of other people can do it, instead of going someplace where what you do is needed, and no one wants to go?”
Before we put a bow on this box and put it under the tree, I hope you will think about that challenge one more time. I don’t care where you go. I just want you to find God waiting for you when you get there. I don’t care what you do — that’s not my call. I just want you to do the very thing that God created you to do, and that’s between the two of you.
I trust God to help you discover what that is, and where you will do it. I believe He is capable of speaking that into your heart, if you’re listening. I don’t think we necessarily need to do anything differently to hear Him, just be attentive to the ways He is speaking to us every day. It’s the little things that matter most. Whatever we do for God matters. It makes all the difference in the world.
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