Here’s what I want you to do

So many times I have gotten that statement: here’s what I want you to do. I have preached that sermon more than a few times. It’s the statement combined with a list. My speech or my list usually does not include the next word however: “God helping you.” Usually my speech would go like, this is your problem, it’s your responsibility, you didn’t do it when I asked before so now this is what I want you to do.

Paul gives us a list of what God would like us to do and then gives us that line that changes it all; God helping you. It seems so simple the way it is stated. Take your everyday life and live it with Jesus being your hands and heart! The stuff you do normally, make it be an offering to God that makes him smile and people relax. Then he adds specifics like your sleeping, your eating, going to work and walking around life. That about sums its up. That’s pretty much a normal day. We sleep, we eat, we work and we walk around trying to figure out what we were doing so we can finish it. I am sitting in the new to me green comfy chair in the corner. I see an envelope that is ready to be shipped, a puzzle that needs finishing, prayer list great needs to be gone through, and menus that need to be planned for the week. I see my journal which tells me what I have planned for the week and I see it’s all “walking around life” stuff. Sometimes I don’t think of it as a living sacrifice. Sometimes I don’t see it as anything good just stuff I have to do. And yet there is so much fun in the walking around life. I sat at a hockey game yesterday, picked up a new to meet huge Christmas tree for next year, painted, made cookies, did dishes, played with a dog and watched a couple very good football games. I was Just walking around life. Step by step I am being Jesus with skin to those I meet. Isn’t hard, it isn’t easy: but it’s what I am supposed to be doing to lay an offering at the feet of Jesus. The kicker is the statement, ” God helping you.” So off I go to be more that what I could normally be cuz I have that statement at the end of the directions. It’s beyond Mix well. It’s better than stir for 10 minutes and kneed gently. It takes the work off my heart and puts it on Gods shoulders. I can handle that!