Apparently it was the right question
I talked about money the other day. I mentioned that the big check isn't coming. But I did ask God what I could do with what I had. Apparently I can do a lot more than I thought I could. I need to share with you two items taken from my Facebook news feed earlier this morning to set the stage for the story I'm going to tell.
The first is a meme:
The second is a status update:
Just as an aside, dropping these little things into a blog post takes a bit of outside-the-box thinking.
Anyway, when you ask the right questions and do the right things, sometimes God makes the candle lighting the path burn a little brighter and I really don't know why I thought that my homework for week 12 of my class called Caring for God's People was just gonna be a one time thing.
Yeah, not so much.
The thing I wanted to do is to expand on a family tradition. To do more. But after talking about, and writing about it in general terms, on Monday I was faced with a question. "Then what?" It came to me and then the same sort of question came in a phone call. Lesson 13 of my class calls for making a 4 to 6 month action plan to invoke some kind of "Kingdom change" in my community. My plan looks like it will take what I thought would be a one-time thing and use it to open doors to invoke that change.
We need some kingdom change. When people like Bill Mahr are effectively calling out "Evangelical Christians" for being anything but and our elected officials are proffering up testimonies like this one it tells me we need to start worrying about that beam in our own eyes before we start taking out the speck of sawdust in someone else's. I found the comments from the congressman outrageous. Judging from the article, I wasn't alone.
My homework kind of involves hunger, but on two fronts: Spiritual and physical. I can do something about both with what I have and it looks like that's kind of the path I'm on. I wrote a while ago that I had a heart for missions, for some reason. I thought that was going to involve picking up loose change and putting it in the plate once in a while for the missions offering. Apparently there are things to do in Ogden to grow the Kingdom. My "mission" if you will, is that what I got out of that class I'm taking is part of God's plan to equip the called. I don't just get to sit on my butt with it.
I'm kind of excited about this. Lesson 12 is going to take care of itself. I'm confident we'll find what we're looking for to get started (or who, would be a better choice of words). My action plan will be actioned upon; success is in God' hands. I'm just wiling and available. A lot of cool stuff can happen when you're wiling and available.
I have one problem though, and that's lesson eleven. I'm avoiding it. I know that God's not gonna let me do that forever. But for now, it's on the back burner.....
The first is a meme:
The second is a status update:
“Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” Luke 21:1-4 Click >> www.worksoffaith.com << to make an impact!
Just as an aside, dropping these little things into a blog post takes a bit of outside-the-box thinking.
Anyway, when you ask the right questions and do the right things, sometimes God makes the candle lighting the path burn a little brighter and I really don't know why I thought that my homework for week 12 of my class called Caring for God's People was just gonna be a one time thing.
Yeah, not so much.
The thing I wanted to do is to expand on a family tradition. To do more. But after talking about, and writing about it in general terms, on Monday I was faced with a question. "Then what?" It came to me and then the same sort of question came in a phone call. Lesson 13 of my class calls for making a 4 to 6 month action plan to invoke some kind of "Kingdom change" in my community. My plan looks like it will take what I thought would be a one-time thing and use it to open doors to invoke that change.
We need some kingdom change. When people like Bill Mahr are effectively calling out "Evangelical Christians" for being anything but and our elected officials are proffering up testimonies like this one it tells me we need to start worrying about that beam in our own eyes before we start taking out the speck of sawdust in someone else's. I found the comments from the congressman outrageous. Judging from the article, I wasn't alone.
My homework kind of involves hunger, but on two fronts: Spiritual and physical. I can do something about both with what I have and it looks like that's kind of the path I'm on. I wrote a while ago that I had a heart for missions, for some reason. I thought that was going to involve picking up loose change and putting it in the plate once in a while for the missions offering. Apparently there are things to do in Ogden to grow the Kingdom. My "mission" if you will, is that what I got out of that class I'm taking is part of God's plan to equip the called. I don't just get to sit on my butt with it.
I'm kind of excited about this. Lesson 12 is going to take care of itself. I'm confident we'll find what we're looking for to get started (or who, would be a better choice of words). My action plan will be actioned upon; success is in God' hands. I'm just wiling and available. A lot of cool stuff can happen when you're wiling and available.
I have one problem though, and that's lesson eleven. I'm avoiding it. I know that God's not gonna let me do that forever. But for now, it's on the back burner.....
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