We make GOD out to be some big Meanie. Don't we?
I've always said I just do whatever the LORD puts before me, whether it be running the sound room, praying, cleaning the bathroom...
Well, yesterday I cleaned a bathroom for a brother at the church. He's been laid up in the VA hospital for weeks. He needed his place scrubbed down so he had a "semi-sterile" environment to change his bandages in. My wife and kids took the kitchen and living room, and I took the bedroom and bathroom.
It would be easy to say, "You've always said you'd scrub toilets if GOD put it before you. Now HE called you on that one."
???
Is GOD some BIG MEANIE, or BULLY that pokes, prods, provokes HIS children to anger?
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!
Remember, it is the enemy that provokes.
In Matthew 4, the enemy is called "the tempter". Chapter 4 verse 3 he accuses, "IF you are..."
Ya, if you are the Christian that you think you are, you'll scrub that toilet. Ya, GOD called you on that one! Ya, open your mouth again and see what GOD does! Ha! That'll teach you, huh?!
GOD does NOT treat HIS children that way. Luke 11:11-12 shows us this. If earthly fathers can take care of the needs of their children, how much more will our HEAVENLY FATHER provide what is needful?
I considered it a privilege to help out my brother in the LORD.
I mean, who else was available? who else was willing?
I'm not special, don't get me wrong.
I'm called.
That doesn't make me special either.
Many people are called of GOD, but it would seem most are too busy to answer the call.
That's one call you want to take!
Romans 11:29 KJV
(29) For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Ya, that's what I was trying to say.
Matthew 9:37-38 KJV
(37) Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
(38) Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
Ya, that too.
That was something the LORD is still showing me. No matter how busy I get during a given day, what am I doing that I can take with me? What am I doing that has "eternal" value?
Oh! But I have to get "this" or "that" done...
Do you?
Are you sure?
Is that what you said, or is that what GOD said?
Did you ask HIM?
Don't worry, there is no "Judgement Seat of 2guntom". You do NOT have to answer to me.
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