It’s not about what you do, but who you are in what you are doing that makes a difference. When reading about the life of Jesus, it becomes quickly clear that it didn’t matter if Jesus was hanging out at a well or teaching the multitudes, He was always Jesus. Always full of peace, wisdom, faith, love and healing that poured forth no matter what he was doing. You get the feeling that, though he wasn’t officially in ministry until his 30’s, that Jesus who was the carpenter, was the same miracle-working full-time minister Jesus that we all read about. It’s easy to feel like the one who leads the crusade or speaks at the pulpit is closer to who Jesus is and demonstrates more of what Jesus was like. But I don’t believe that this was the kind of message Jesus was trying to portray. Many of us have heard the Scripture in Matthew 25 where Jesus separates the goats from the sheep and He told those on His right hand, “‘...for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’” And we all know their response. They seemed almost confused because they knew they hadn’t fed Jesus, gave Him a drink, visited Him in prison or any of the things that He had mentioned and yet He says to them in verse 45, “Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’” Those that were righteous weren’t righteous because they were trying to be, it’s who they were. It was just a part of their lifestyle. It was the work that God had done in their lives where there was always an overflow of the love that they chose to share. For those who were considered righteous it wasn’t about their career, or their ministry position, or lack thereof, it was about that determining moment of what you’re going to do when faced with someone with a need. Does love overflow in your heart? Does a busy a schedule get in the way? Do you meet the need out of obligation to quiet the person? Or is your lifestyle one that accommodates and adjusts when confronted with someone who has a need, Christian or non-Christian? I don’t think God keeps count, I don’t think He cares about a score, I think He cares about our hearts and our heart’s ability to let love flow regardless of what we’re doing. When this is all over and the curtain closes on this stage of life, will Jesus be concerned with what career or ministry position we held? Is that the questions He will be asking or will He be asking us if we were consistently loving no matter what we were doing? Maybe we’ve got it all wrong in our culture and it’s a lot less about what we do and lot more of who we are regardless of what we do in life. That sounds a lot more like organic Christianity. Now growing that and developing it in our own lives, that’s where we must put in the work, but organic Christianity planted with a seed of love and consistently choosing to love, that’s where we must start. - Michelle Kennedy https://facebook/michelle.kennedy.7374
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 03:36:15 +0000
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