1 Timothy 5:5-6
The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help. But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.
Where do we start? Who do we help? How do we know where we can make the greatest impact as opposed to creating more harm?
The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help. But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.
Where do we start? Who do we help? How do we know where we can make the greatest impact as opposed to creating more harm?
We serve a sovereign God. A God that is personal and relevant every
moment of every day. A God that in the blink of an eye can change the
world. A God that in a heartbeat can transform a life.
Our part is to play our part. Whatever that might be. We must be obedient. Within the fleeting of His thoughts, He could change the lives of those who are considered the poorest of the poor. He doesn't need us at all but rather He allows us to be a part.
We look at those less fortunate than us and immediately our minds are concerned with how do we make this better...prettier?How can we clean this up? And sometimes, God impresses upon us that is precisely what we should do. And sometimes, He says to be still and watch Him at work. While other times, He instructs us to love greatly right where they are changing nothing but being His hands and feet.
Satan will try to turn it into something more confusing than it actually is. He will encourage us to move mountains that God had ordained to stay. He will pluck at our emotions and then come back and poke at our pride when our best intentions wane results that fail to meet our expectations. And we become disillusioned and discouraged, walking away from the very call that He has sent us.
Every step, every gesture is an act of pure obedience.
The more we walk in obedience to Him the more distinct His voice becomes and the more real our motives evolve. As we begin to see through His eyes and not the world's, we see through the lenses of eternity instead of the here and now.
We see promise amidst the chaos. We see life where the dead lie. We see hope instead of the hopeless.
When we choose to walk in obedience to Him above all else, we find it's not about the outcome but rather the journey. We lay it down as sacrifice and rest in the peace of having completed our part....our portion. We stop overthinking, overfeeling and overanalyzing and we begin to fully trust Him.
Live worthy.
Our part is to play our part. Whatever that might be. We must be obedient. Within the fleeting of His thoughts, He could change the lives of those who are considered the poorest of the poor. He doesn't need us at all but rather He allows us to be a part.
We look at those less fortunate than us and immediately our minds are concerned with how do we make this better...prettier?How can we clean this up? And sometimes, God impresses upon us that is precisely what we should do. And sometimes, He says to be still and watch Him at work. While other times, He instructs us to love greatly right where they are changing nothing but being His hands and feet.
Satan will try to turn it into something more confusing than it actually is. He will encourage us to move mountains that God had ordained to stay. He will pluck at our emotions and then come back and poke at our pride when our best intentions wane results that fail to meet our expectations. And we become disillusioned and discouraged, walking away from the very call that He has sent us.
Every step, every gesture is an act of pure obedience.
The more we walk in obedience to Him the more distinct His voice becomes and the more real our motives evolve. As we begin to see through His eyes and not the world's, we see through the lenses of eternity instead of the here and now.
We see promise amidst the chaos. We see life where the dead lie. We see hope instead of the hopeless.
When we choose to walk in obedience to Him above all else, we find it's not about the outcome but rather the journey. We lay it down as sacrifice and rest in the peace of having completed our part....our portion. We stop overthinking, overfeeling and overanalyzing and we begin to fully trust Him.
Live worthy.
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