Not long ago a young mother came to my office. She had a cute little boy in tow. He was fascinated by the junk that fills my space. After she sat down she said, “I desperately want to do something to serve the Lord. What career would you suggest?” “How old is he?” I asked. “Four,” she responded. “Well,” I said, “it appears to me that you are serving the Lord and you will be so occupied for the next fourteen years.”
I cannot imagine any career that is more important than serving the Lord by being a good mother or father. What title, what job name could one put on one’s door, could be more important than Mom or Dad? I love being a teacher but I am under no illusion that my job is the most important job in the world. Our new President has no task more important than to be a good dad to his two daughters. How horrible to save the whole world and to lose one’s children.
We do not need to receive a pay check from a church in order to serve God. We serve Him everyday in the routine chores of life. Loving a child, feeding a family, being a responsible role model, faithfully going to work, reading to your child at night, tucking them in with a kiss; this is serving the Lord.
Jesus said, “When you have done it to the least of these, you have done it unto me.”
Written by Roger Bothwell on January 22, 2009
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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