Would I Send Me For The Job?
Colossians 3:23-24 (Amplified Bible)
23Whatever may be your task, work at it heartily (from the soul), as [something done] for the Lord and not for men, 24Knowing [with all certainty] that it is from the Lord [and not from men] that you will receive the inheritance which is your [real] reward. [The One Whom] you are actually serving [is] the Lord Christ (the Messiah).
Have you ever thought to yourself “I am good at what I do?” Or you have said to yourself “I got this I am handling this thing,” because your heart, head and hands were all in, and sometimes your finances too? On the other hand have you ever thought to yourself, wow I didn’t apply a lot of effort to that at all. I am kind of hard on myself and often I will evaluate my processes and the way I manage, time, talents and my tongue. Recently when someone ask me to pray or to do something for them, I immediately begin to evaluate “am I doing this half, or whole hearted?” I also ask, myself “if I was in this position how would I want someone to handle this on my behalf?” You see for many of us our response to a need is correct or to the request is the ideal one, we are quick to say yes, but our follow-up, or our actual response is nothing short of a hot mess, it is lacking effort and the right attitude, motivation and mind set to get the task, job or whatever done effectively. It is as half or watered down as it can get. Never thinking for one moment we are going to one day need someone to step into our situation and act on our behalf to a situation just like that or similar.
Last night I sat with a friend at the hospital. Although when I first got the word that they were in the hospital I had no information (like what hospital they were in and the specifics of what was going on), but I knew this person well enough to know they needed a friend there and they needed to know someone cared enough to take the time to be with them, so I called every hospital until I located them, and then I went and sat and talked. So many times we say the phrases like “what would Jesus do,” but our responses are as far from what Jesus would do than the east is from the west, even when we say we have people’s back, or we are in their corner. The proof is in the doing not in the saying. It is so difficult for me to believe that we can get upset when we get in a spot where we need support, when we have needed to support and we have not given it, or we have done it in such a way, we should have just kept it. You see besides helping a fellow human being ( and I know there are many of you that feel that this is overrated) we are doing what God asked us to do, help one another, pray for one another, feed one another, care for one another, and most of all FORGIVE and LOVE one another.
The next time you are faced with a request, a task, a mission, begin to evaluate, if while you are in the task, or committing yourself to do this, are you all in, half in or just all out. We need to take a moment and ask if the shoe was on the other foot, would I be the person I would want doing this for me? Whether praying, being there, serving, being a friend to, are you being the you that you would want by your side in that time and that space going through that particular situation? In many cases we will find that we are lacking in our service and lacking in the right attitude to be of service to anyone but ourselves. You see it is more than just saying yes to something it is about the attitude in which we bring to that space, it is also about the effort that we place into it and the priority that we place upon it. When we are in need or in crisis, many of us want people at our beckon call, but when it is our time to sow a seed of assistance we bring so much less than our a game. I want God to be pleased with my service, but truthfully I want to be able to rest in the knowledge that I provided to someone in their time of need what I would have wanted if it was my time of need!
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