Life's Work

Most of my blog readers are my fellow church members, so this should sound familiar to you. I have really been needing change in my life and I'm so thankful for the mercy of God which never gives up on us. It seems that I had the recurring problem of my spirit being willing but my flesh weak. In the area of spending time in the Word and prayer, I always INTENDED to do it but stuff came up or I didn't get around to it. This was driving me crazy and I couldn't take that I was placing other things above the things of God. The great thing about God is that He doesn't condemn me but rather convicts me by the Holy Ghost and gives me chance after chance. I knew that I had to be productive with the chances He was given me because I did not want my heart to become hard. Needless to say, recent church services have been on point for me.

I read Ephesians 3:7 in the Message this morning in which Paul says, "This is my life work: helping people understand and respond to this Message." That made it very clear and simple for me. Like PS said in a recent service, "Our objective is not to have a family, raise kids, make money, retire, etc.; but our one and only objective is to take this Gospel Message to the ends of the earth."

I don't know about you, but it has always seemed a little overwhelming for ME to take this Message to the ends of the earth. However, this is nothing more than helping people understand and respond to the Message. Later on in Ephesians 3:8 Paul said, "When it came to presenting the Message to people with no background in God's way, I was the least qualified of any available Christians. (ever feel that way?) God saw to it that I was equipped, but you can be sure that it had nothing to do with my natural abilities." We need to trust God that when we step out and do what He says, that we will be perfectly equipped to do it.

The time is now. I want to be in the boat. I want to be a part of what God is doing in this earth and I must be about fulfilling the objective He has given me. My life's work will be to help people understand and respond to this Message.