So how many of us, if we're honest, have days where we say that we've done enough?
Enough for the day?
Enough for ourselves?
Enough for each other?
In these moments I think we must be measuring ourselves by our own worldly limits and certainly not by God's standards!
Surely we can NEVER do enough to advocate for the orphan and widow.
To stand up for the most vulnerable in society.
To putting our faith into action.
To serving a God who laid down His own life for us and the wrongs we do.
But yet I still hear it in the most unlikely places.
People, who deem themselves to be Christians, saying they have a calling to serve God, but yet fail to walk the walk. Those who fail to go that extra mile for not just another human being but for God! Those who become lazy in their faith journey.
Simply talking the talk is NOT good enough.
God ALWAYS asks for MORE! God asks for ACTIONS!
And yet, when we feel like we've done enough, it's in these testing times, where God enocurages us to go further, that our faith grows and our trust in Him develops stronger.
'And God is able to make all grace overflow to you so that because you have enough of everything in every way at all times, you will overflow in every good work.'
2 Corinthians 9:8
In our good works, God will fill us with His grace!
We live such comfortable lives, with little stresses or worries, and yet the suffering continues for so many.
Children are still left without families. Slum families will struggle to stay safe, warm and fed tonight. A woman is raped. A child abducted to become a child soldier. Someone spends a night on the streets, homeless. A widow mourns.
The list could go on.....but you know the realities as well as I do.
Somewhere, someone is in need of love, in need of comfort and ultimately in need of action.
It may be in another part of the world, but it could also be on your doorstep.
And still we fail to try. Or we worry about the little thing that we can do will fail to meet the needs of this person.
God has given us comfortable lives to help those without this comfort!
Our love multiplies with every need we see! So why then should we fail to act upon it?
Throughout our adoption journey so many comments were made to me about how good it was of me to adopt. So much emphasis on meeting a need. And yet the need is still there. Not for Lutaaya, and a need was met in her life, but this isn't ALL God has called me to do.
The calling to adopt was the strongest I have ever felt. There has been a period of quietness and contemplation since we arrived home from Uganda in 2010.
But yet God Calls......
Maybe quieter.....
Maybe a different message.....
But still there! Still alive.
God hasn't sent me a message saying, 'Well done on adopting Lutaaya Natasha, now go and enjoy your time together and forget about anything else for the rest of your days for you heard and followed Me.' Instead He gets me thinking, 'so what now God?' 'What next?'
And that's my call to work out. But what's yours? What has God filled your heart to do tonight, tomorrow? I'd love to hear your stories, so feel free to post them in the comments part. Let's see what mountain's God is moving, or the little actions that mean the world to someone.
Whatever it is, lets's act!
Surely it's better to do SOMETHING for someone else, rather than NOTHING!
