It’s been a busy day doing the Lord’s work. It started snowing last evening and we are at about the two foot level now. That makes it very difficult for the chickadees, cardinals, blue jays and others birds to stay fed. We have had to refill the seed feeder and the suet feeders because of the constant stream of about eighteen different kinds of birds staying nourished.
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said, “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”
God’s work manifests itself in a huge variety of ways. Who’s to say which is more important than another? The farmer plowing his field, the auto worker going to his assembly plant, the teacher going to her classroom, the grocery store shelf stocker stocking, the cook cooking at Denny’s, the highway patrolman patrolling, the nurse nursing in the emergency room are all doing God’s work.
Occasionally I talk with someone ruing the fact they never got a job working for the church. They made the mistake of thinking that working for the church is the only way to do God’s work. God’s work is caring for others’ needs. If I had to rank jobs as to what is the number one task that is God’s work I would most likely list Hospice workers. The fact is God needs all of us to make life work. Our part can change from day to day. Today our job was to feed His birds. Tomorrow when the snow melts it will be something else. Whatever it be let’s do it well. Luke 9:62.
Written by Roger Bothwell on January 28, 2015
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